Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a (usually guided) missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft. list of air-to-air missiles For each missile, short notes are given, including an indication of its range and guidance mechanism. Germany: X-4 missile - WW2 design, MCLOS, never saw service International: MBDA Meteor - long range, active radar; design to replace AMRAAM IRIS-T - medium range IR; replacement for Sidewinder Israel: Rafael Python 3 - Rafael Python 4 - medium range IR Rafael Python 5 - medium range IR; improves on Python 4 UK: AIM-132 ASRAAM - short range IR USA: AIM-7 Sparrow - medium range semi-active radar AIM-9 Sidewinder - short range IR AIM-54 Phoenix - long range, semi-active and active radar AIM-120 AMRAAM - medium range, semi-active radar; replaces Sparrow This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.