Air-to-air missile

An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a (usually guided) missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft.

list of air-to-air missiles

For each missile, short notes are given, including an indication of its range and guidance mechanism.

Germany:

• X-4 missile - WW2 design, MCLOS, never saw service

International:

• MBDA Meteor - long range, active radar; design to replace AMRAAM
• IRIS-T - medium range IR; replacement for Sidewinder

Israel:

• Rafael Python 3 -
• Rafael Python 4 - medium range IR
• Rafael Python 5 - medium range IR; improves on Python 4

UK:

• AIM-132 ASRAAM - short range IR

USA:

• AIM-7 Sparrow - medium range semi-active radar
• AIM-9 Sidewinder - short range IR
• AIM-54 Phoenix - long range, semi-active and active radar
• AIM-120 AMRAAM - medium range, semi-active radar; replaces Sparrow