The AMRAAM was used for the first time on 27 December 1992, when a USAF F-16D shot down an Iraqi MiG-25 that violated the southern no-fly-zone.

AMRAAM gained a second victory in January 1993 when an Iraqi MiG-23 was shot down by a USAF F-16C.

The third combat use of the AMRAAM was in 1994, when a Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb aircraft was shot down by a USAF F-16C that was patrolling the UN-imposed no-fly-zone over Bosnia.

It was heavy, large, expensive and not practical in close combat compared to the Sparrow or AMRAAM.

The Division was also responsible for developing the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile ( AMRAAM ), an Air Force-led joint project with the U. S. Navy.

A group led by BAe, comprising Alenia Difesa, GEC-Marconi, and Saab Dynamics, proposed the S225XR ; Matra proposed a derivative of MICA, although the long-planned merger of BAe Dynamics and Matra's missile division was expected to lead to the removal of this proposal ; Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Bayern-Chemie proposed the Advanced Air-to-Air Missile ( A3M ); and Hughes, supported by the U. S. Government, proposed an AMRAAM derivative based on upgrade work being carried out.

The high energy of the high frequency radar ( compared to the I-band used on AMRAAM ) was claimed to provide an ability to " burn-through " most ECM and the shorter wavelength would allow the target's position to be determined more precisely allowing the use of directional warheads.

ERAAM + would retain the ERAAM dual-pulse motor but fitted to a front end incorporating all the features of Phase 3 of the U. S. Department of Defense's ( DoD ) AMRAAM Pre-Planned Product Improvement ( P3I ) programme, which was planned out to 2015.

" It was reported by Jane's Information Group that this delay could lead to the RAF operating AMRAAM to a point where stocks of airworthy missiles become low.

The VF-0's armament was virtually identical to the VF-1's ( although the VF-1S's laser armament was bumped up from two to four barrels ), but slightly older in design: A 35mm gun pod ( GPU-9 ) in place of the VF-1's 55mm GU-11, and AIM-200 AMRAAM IIs ( a development of the AIM-120 AMRAAM ) air to air missiles in place of the VF-1's AMM-1s.

The then Shorts Missile Systems was a partner in Raytheon's Future Medium Range Air-Air Missile ( FMRAAM ) project, which was to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile used by European air forces.

The missile was replaced by the more capable AMRAAM.

The Phoenix and its associated Tomcat radar, the AWG-9 was capable of multiple track and launch capability, which was unique to the Tomcat / Phoenix until the advent of AMRAAM in 1991. A MiG-29 Fulcrum fires a AA-10 " Alamo ".

NASAMS was the first surface-based application for the AIM-120 AMRAAM ( Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile ) and the first surface-to-air missile system in the western world with active radar guidance.

Development was shelved in favor of better missiles, such as the AIM-120 AMRAAM.

The AMRAAM is also usable by a wide variety of fighter planes, including the F-4, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, Panavia Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35 Lightning II, Swedish-made fighters, and ground-based launchers of the U. S. Army.

Like the AIM-120 AMRAAM, PL-12 is also used as SAM, and tests have already successfully completed as the possible replacement of LY-60, but such system has not entered service because China has already been developing the vertical launched version.

In early 2006 the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) ordered 500 AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM missiles as part of a $ 650 million F-16 ammunition deal to equip the PAF's F-16C / D Block 52 + and F-16A / B MLU fighters.

With modern Radar guided air-to-air missiles like the AMRAAM greatly extending the general engagement range of jet fighters, some experts hypothesize that dogfighting may be headed toward extinction, but others cite the occurrences in Vietnam as evidence otherwise.

As of mid 2008, the AIM-120 AMRAAM has shot down nine aircraft ( six MiG-29s, one MiG-25, one MiG-23, and one Soko J-21 Jastreb ).

If chosen, the U. S. Government, in an unprecedented move, offered to merge the U. S. AMRAAM and UK BVRAAM programmes, under joint control.

Some sources claim the resulting combination has a greater range than the Russian missile, and a fire-and-forget active guidance ( from R-77 ) capability comparable to the modern U. S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.

It remains in service, although it is being phased out in aviation applications in favor of the more advanced AIM-120 AMRAAM.

Sparrow is now being phased out with the availability of the active-radar AIM-120 AMRAAM, but is likely to remain in service for several years.

The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM ( pronounced " am-ram "), is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile ( BVRAAM ) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations.

When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code-Fox Three.

At that point three launches in combat resulted in three kills, resulting in the AMRAAM being informally named " slammer " in the second half of the 1990s.

Since 2007 Raytheon has continued to slip on AMRAAM deliveries, leading the USAF to withhold $ 621 million in 2012 on account of 193 missiles not delivered.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

The latest AIM-120D AMRAAM has a significantly lower range of about, but the AMRAAM is much shorter, lighter, and more flexible in its use against a wide variety of targets, including fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, patrol planes, and reconnaissance planes.

As part of a Winston No Bull 5 fan contest, Earnhardt drives a Bomb Lift Truck and attempts to load an AIM-120 AMRAAM | AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile ( AMRAAM ) missile as he competes in a load crew competition at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, September 2000.

* Six missile stations for two RB71 Skyflash ( only JA37 ), four AIM-120 AMRAAM ( JA 37D ), or six AIM-9 Sidewinder or four 135 mm ( 5. 4 in ) rocket pods.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.