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Military Aircraft Systems. Air-to-Air Weapons. AIM-132 ASRAAM. AIM-132 ASRAAM. Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile Aircraft: Tornado F3 Typhoon F2. AIM-132 ASRAAM.
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AIM-132 ASRAAM Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile Aircraft: • Tornado F3 • Typhoon F2
AIM-132 ASRAAM • The Aim-132 ASRAAM is a highly manoeuvrable, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile able to counter sophisticated infrared (IR) countermeasures. • The missile is the world’s first IR missile to use a sapphire-domed staring array detector, which detects the whole target aircraft. • The missile has a fire-and-forget capability, thus the pilot can engage multiple targets with several missiles simultaneously. • Following release, the missile accelerates to speeds in excess of Mach 3 whilst being guided to the target using its IR seeker.
AIM-132 ASRAAM Performance: Range: 8nmls+ Speed: Mach 3+ Sensor: IR staring array with inertial guidance Dimensions: Length: 2.9m Diameter: 0.17m Weight: 87kg