RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
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rim-7-sea-sparrow-185-13514416
title:
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
text:
The RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a U.S. ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles. The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a lightweight "point-defense" weapon that could be retrofitted to existing ships as quickly as possible, often in place of existing gun-based anti-aircraft weapons. In this incarnation, it was a very simple system guided by a manually aimed radar illu
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encyclopedia
description:
US ship-borne short-range air defense missile system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-7_Sea_Sparrow
date created:
2004-04-04T02:49:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:14:12Z
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