Sidewinder Question
danwild6 wrote:Has there ever been a sidewinder variant that can be launched by ejection?
Don't know about the 9-X but AFAIK earlier models had to be in the airstream to keep the rollerons on the tailfins spinning to keep the missile stable during launch and in flight.
"When a fifth-generation fighter meets a fourth-generation fighter—the [latter] dies,”
CSAF Gen. Mark Welsh
CSAF Gen. Mark Welsh
Look up the Chaparral ADS (MIM-72) on Wikipedia. Four heaters on a tracked vehicle launched from a dead stop. Missiles had to be modified by replacing two of the four rollerons with fixed fins.
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