Guided Missiles by Conflict - Cold War Guided Missiles, Falklands War Guided Missiles, Gulf War Guided Missiles, Iran-Iraq War Guided Missiles (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 195. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cold War Guided Missiles, Falklands War Guided Missiles, Gulf War Guided Missiles, Iran iraq War Guided Missiles, Iraq War Guided Missiles, Kosovo War Guided Missiles, Vietnam War Guided Missiles, Bgm-109 Tomahawk, Agm-114 Hellfire, Aim-54 Phoenix, Fim-92 Stinger, Rapier Missile, Agm-88 Harm, Aim-9 Sidewinder, Strela 2, S-75 Dvina, Bgm-71 Tow, Exocet, Sea Dart Missile, Sea Wolf Missile, Ikara, Sea Cat Missile, Blowpipe Missile, Kh-23, Sea Slug Missile, Sea Skua, Storm Shadow, Aerospatiale Ss.12/as.12, Alarm Missile, Agm-45 Shrike, Milan, Roland Missile, Agm-78 Standard Arm, R550 Magic, Shafrir, Agm-87 Focus. Excerpt: The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. Variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces after five decades. When a Sidewinder missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox Two in radio communication, as with all "heat-seeking" missiles. The Sidewinder is the most widely used missile in the West, with more than 110,000 missiles produced for the U.S. and 27 other nations, of which perhaps one percent have been used in combat. It has been built under license by some other nations including Sweden. The AIM-9 is one of the oldest, least expensive and most successful air-to-air missiles, with an estimated 270 kills worldwide to date. The missile was designed to be simple to upgrade. It has been said that the design goals for the original Sidewinder were to produce a reliable and effective missile with the "electronic complexity of a table model radio and the mechanical complexity of a washing machine"goals which were well accomplished in the early missiles. The United States Navy hosted a 50th anniversary celebration of its existence in 2002. The...