The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced AM-ram), is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with a 7-inch (180mm) diameter form-and-fit factor, and employing active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance, it has the advantage of being a fire-and-forget weapon when compared to the previous generation Sparrow missiles. When an AMRAAM missile is launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox Three
Production history Manufacturer • Hughes: 1991–97 Raytheon: 1997–present
Unit cost • $300,000–$400,000 for 120C variants
- • $1,786,000(FY2014) for 120D
- US$1,090,000[2] (AIM-120D FY 2019)
Specifications
- Mass 335 lb (152 kg)
- Length 12 ft (3.7 m)
- Diameter 7 in (180 mm)
- Warhead High explosive blast-fragmentation
- • AIM-120A/B: WDU-33/B, 50 pounds (22.7 kg)
- • AIM-120C-5: WDU-41/B, 40 pounds (18.1 kg)
- Operational
- range • AIM-120A/B: 55–75 km (30–40 nmi)
- • AIM-120C-5: >105 km (>57 nmi)
- • AIM-120D (C-8): >160 km (>86 nmi)
- Speed Mach 4 (4,900 km/h; 3,045 mph)
- Guidance system inertial guidance, terminal active radar homing
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