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5/6/2015 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The 411th Flight Test Squadron and F-22 Combined Test Force successfully test fired two guided AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles this year as part of the latest phase in getting the Raptor closer to using the missile operationally.
The AIM-9X is an advanced infrared missile and the newest of the Sidewinder family of short-range air-to-air missiles carried on a wide range of fighter jets.
The first guided launch of the AIM-9X from an F-22 Raptor was Feb. 26 by Maj. Christopher Guarente, 411th FLTS assistant director of operations and F-22 test pilot. The missile successfully shot down a BQM-34 drone.
The second guided firing was conducted April 29 by Maj. Patrick Killingsworth targeting a BQM-74 drone. Both shots were taken over the nearby China Lake test range.
"The second shot was done in a much more stressing flight regime; doing things that only the Raptor can do while employing the AIM-9X," said Jeremy Cookson, F-22 Weapons Integration lead engineer.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
So I guess when anyone captures them, they can just slap them on the plane and shoot them right back?
"We shoot you with your own missile! Haha!"
How crazy the the international arms trade is....
little sideways ... but DANG, I had no idea the K-13 was a direct rip off of the Sidewinder...
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
A little sideways ... but DANG, I had no idea the K-13 was a direct rip off of the Sidewinder...even to the point they could be used interchangeably! The Russians did a crazy job of copying it..
K-13
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: MystikMushroom
Not very. In the early days of the Sidewinder they'd lock onto the sun.