AIM-9 Sidewinder
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aim-9-sidewinder-206-1283459
title:
AIM-9 Sidewinder
text:
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. Its latest variants remain standard equipment in most Western-aligned air forces. The Soviet K-13, a reverse-engineered copy of the AIM-9B, was also widely adopted. Low-level development started in the late 1940s, emerging in the early 1950s as a guidance system for the modular
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Short-range air-to-air missile
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder
date created:
2002-01-08T19:10:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T14:35:07Z
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13
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