Showing posts with label Military Missile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military Missile. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Raduga K-9 Missile

      The Raduga K-9 NATO reporting name AA-4  was a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, and would apparently have had the service designation R-38. It was intended to arm the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A NATO reporting name 'Flipper', an experimental high speed twin-engine aircraft, predecessor to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat'. When the Ye-152A was shown at Tushino in 1961, a prototype of the K-9 missile was displayed with it.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

GBU-16 Smart Bomb

              GBU-16 Smart Bomb an aviation ordnanceman makes a final check on a GBU-16 Paveway 1 smart bomb on board the USS George Washington. As as a picture shows the US Navy installing and preparing the GBU-16 Smart Bomb

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

AGM-114 Hellfire Missile

The AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile; it developed by primarily for anti-armor use. It can be launched from multiple air, sea, and ground platforms. It has multi-mission, and multi-target precision-strike capability. The Hellfire missile is the primary 100 lb-class air-to-ground precision weapon for the armed forces of the United States and many other nations. The HELLFIRE name comes from its original intention as a helicopter-launched fire-and-forget weapon (Helicopter Launched FIRE-and-forget).
The AGM-114 Hellfire is a combat-proven tactical missile system. The missile has been in combat use since the mid-1980s.