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Has anyone seen this? Apparently the AIM-9X has been fired twice from F-16's that destroyed two fast moving boats and once from an F-15C that destroyed a moving APC!

http://www.f-16.net/news_article3929.html
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php ... ;item=1462

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Cool, something to do with your missiles on those boring CAPs when there are no aircraft to shoot down!

Way to go, Raytheon! Thumb

That's a great improvement !

Very impressive!
Has anyone done the opposite, fired an AGM at an airborne target? Would it even work?
fisk

I think there is a story on here somewhere where a laser guided bomb takes out an airborne helicopter.

I would think this could be a useful weapon against a fast moving, water born, drug smugler, coming up from the south on either side of the American continent... Devil

lamoey wrote:

I think there is a story on here somewhere where a laser guided bomb takes out an airborne helicopter.

That would be F-15E AF89-0487 of the 4FW 335FS. Took out an BO-105(?) of the Iraqi Army during DS1. The helicopter was taking off, and the WSO keept the target indicator on it untill the GBU-10 hit it.
Don't think they found any of the pilots afterwards.... Cool

When it comes to AIM-9's beeing used against ground targets, this is something that was beeing done already during the VietNam war.
Cunnigham/Driscoll - the USN Aces of the VietNam war did this following their second kill on May 8th 1972.
So nothing new, although this probably gives the AIM-9X formally a dual role.

Maybe a redesignation is in order: A/GIM-9X? Cheers

Sink a boat, kill an apc, then on the way home oops! an Su-27 gets thru the cap and decides to fight you!

The pilots are going to fun just looking at the expression on a crew
chief's face when they see just the pig tail hanging down where a
Sidewinder was!!!

Anyone off hand know the cost of an Aim9-X compaired to bullets
from a 20mm?

fiskerwad wrote:

Very impressive!
Has anyone done the opposite, fired an AGM at an airborne target? Would it even work?
fisk

I think an A-4 Skyhawk hit a MiG-17 with an AGM-45 Shrike during Vietnam. Some Navy aircraft hit MiGs with 5" Zuni rockets too.

On 1 May 1967 during a sortie against North Vietnam’s MiG airfield at Kep, Lieutenant Commander Theodore R. Swartz shot down a Soviet-built MiG-17 with air-to-ground Zuni rockets. This was the only MiG aircraft to be downed by an A-4 Skyhawk during the Vietnam War.[2] Lieutenant Commander Swartz received the Silver Star for his action.

i do believe an F-105 took out a mig with a loaded MER.

hoghandler wrote:

i do believe an F-105 took out a mig with a loaded MER.

Perhaps on the ground. However, F-105D/E/F aircraft scored 27 aerial kills against North Vietnamese MiG-17s- all with their M61 20mm cannons.

No kill like a guns kill. Cool

This is interesting. You could have an F-35 carrying a bunch of AIM-9's instead of Mavericks for CAS. Same goes for F-22... except it probably wouldn't be worth the risk for the money.

I think I remember reading about an A-10 taking out an airborne helicopter with a AGM-65 Maverick.

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