Americas * The USAF has successfully tested the AIM-9X missile on the F-35 fighter for the first time. The test of the heat-seeking missile took place on January 12 at the Pacific Sea Test range. The F-35 will eventually carry two AIM-9X missiles on its wings, and...
Malaysian F/A-18D:Bersama Shield 2010(click to view full) Malaysia has an unusual air fleet, which includes Russian MiG-29s and very advanced SU-30MKMs, alongside 8 of Boeing's F/A-18D Hornets. Southeast Asia is crowded, and contested claims over rich local resources...
AIM-9X test launch, F-18C(click for close-up) Raytheon's AIM-9X Block II would have made Top Gun a very short movie. It's the USA's most advanced short range air-air missile, capable of using its datalink, thrust vectoring maneuverability, and advanced imaging...
F-16 launches AIM-9X(click for AIM-9X zoom) The AIM-9X is the USA's newest short-range air-to-air missile, using an advanced array seeker that widens the missile's "boresight" cone, and allows a TV-like "imaging infrared" picture that's much harder to fool with...
F-16 launches AIM-9X(click for AIM-9X zoom) The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of Turkey's request for 105 All-Up-Round AIM-9X Sidewinder short range air-air missiles, 78 LAU-129 launchers, 22 captive air training missiles with seekers but no...
AIM-9X launch from F-18C(click for closeup view) Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ received a $59.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-07-C-0008), exercising an option for the Lot 7 production of AIM-9X Sidewinder...
F-16 launches AIM-9X(click for AIM-9X zoom) Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ received an $8.9 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-07-C-0008) for technical support for the development of a Block II configuration AIM-9X...
AIM-9X launch from F-18C(click for closeup view) Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ received a $67.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for 222 of the new AIM-9X Sidewinder thrust-vectoring short range air to air missiles (SRAAM), Lot 7 Production. The AIM-9X is the...
AIM-9X Sidewinder Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $6,027,183 ceiling-priced modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0006) to exercise an option for the lot 6 production of 2 AIM-9X Sidewinder tactical missiles for...
F-16 launches AIM-9X(click for AIM-9X zoom) Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, AZ received a $35.7 million ceiling priced modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0006). It exercises an option for the procurement of 127 AIM-9X...