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The AIM-7 Sparrow medium range missile ( MRM ) was purchased by the US Navy from original developer Howard Hughes

* AIM-7 Sparrow

The weapon needed for interceptor aircraft, the Bendix AAM-N-10 Eagle, would be an air-to-air missile of unprecedented range when compared to contemporary AIM-7 Sparrow missiles.

Before the introduction of the Phoenix missile, most other US aircraft relied on the smaller, less-expensive AIM-7 Sparrow ; classified as a Medium Range Missile ( MRM ).

** Air-to-air missiles: AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder

| missiles = 8 × AIM-4 Falcon, Canadair Velvet Glove ( cancelled 1956 ), 2 AIM-7 Sparrow II 2D active guidance missiles ( cancelled )

AIM-7 Sparrow medium range air-to-air missile from an F-15 Eagle

This included the first live firing of radar-guided air-to air AIM-7 Sparrow by the RSAF.

Since its introduction, the SeaSparrow has undergone significant development and now resembles the AIM-7 only in general form ; it is larger, faster and includes a new seeker and a launch system suitable for vertical launch from modern warships.

The CF-18 aircraft is equipped with the AIM-7, AIM-9 and several more advanced air-to-air missiles.

It is comparable to the American AIM-7 Sparrow, both in terms of overall performance as well as role.

The LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-11 / HQ-6 / 6D / 64 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Alenia Aspide missile-itself inspired by the American AIM-7 Sparrow missile.

It is very similar to the American AIM-7 Sparrow, but, at the moment of its introduction, the Aspide was provided with monopulse guide instead of the conic scan, which made it more resistant to ECM and more precise.

American pilots flew aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom II, equipped with long-range AIM-7 Sparrow missiles and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.

In the 1980s, NATO countries signed a Memorandum of Agreement that the United States would develop a medium-range air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-7 Sparrow, while Britain and Germany would develop a short-range air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder.

In the 1980s, NATO countries signed a Memorandum of Agreement that the United States would develop a medium-range air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-7 Sparrow, while Britain and Germany would develop a short-range air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder.

* PL-11 — medium-range air-to-air missile ( MRAAM ), based on the HQ-61C & Italian Aspide ( AIM-7 ) technology.

The British Aerospace Skyflash was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile derived from the US AIM-7 Sparrow missile and carried by Royal Air Force F-4 Phantoms and Tornado F3s, Italian Aeronautica Militare and Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados and Swedish Flygvapnet Viggens.

* AIM-7 Sparrow — medium range semi-active radar

V, was proposed, using semi-active radar homing for capability similar to the AIM-7 Sparrow, but this was cancelled in 1958.

The military uses continuous-wave radar to guide semi-active radar homing ( SARH ) air-to-air missiles, such as the U. S. AIM-7 Sparrow and standard missile.

* AIM-120 AMRAAM — medium range, active radar ; replaces AIM-7 Sparrow

The Air Force focused on these " technical problems " with upgrades to their F-4 Phantom II fleet, such as installing an internal 20mm Vulcan cannon ( replacing the gun pods carried under the aircraft's belly by Air Force Phantom units, such as the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing ), developing improved airborne radar systems, and working to solve the targeting problems of the AIM-9 and AIM-7 air-to-air missiles.

Based on a Raytheon AIM-7 Sparrow, it was meant to offer an air-to-air capability against proposed Soviet AWACS types and also some other types with extremely powerful radar sets such as the MiG-25.

* January 4 – Two United States Navy F-14 Tomcats of Fighter Squadron 32 ( VF-32 ) aboard the aircraft carrier shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s ( NATO reporting name " Flogger ") off the coast of Libya using AIM-7 Sparrow and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.

The Iraqi Air Force loses six aircraft in air-to-air combat to U. S. Air Force F-15C Eagle fighters, five of which are shot down by F-15s employing AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles.

* February 7 – U. S. Air Force F-15C Eagles use AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles to shoot down three Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s ( NATO reporting name " Fitter ") flying to Iran, as well as an Iraqi Mil Mi-24 ( NATO reporting name " Hind ") helicopter in northern Iraq ; a U. S. Navy F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron 1 uses an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile to down an Iraqi Mil Mi-8 ( NATO reporting name " Hip ") helicopter ; and a U. S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II of the 926th Tactical Fighter Group uses 30-mm cannon fire to shoot down an Iraqi Bo 105 helicopter.

The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow < sup > TM </ sup > air-to-air missile as a lightweight " point defense " weapon that could be retrofitted to existing ships as quickly as possible, often in place of existing gun-based anti-aircraft weapons.

Although the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom was equipped with modern infra red-guided AIM-9 Sidewinder and radar-controlled AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, it often proved no match for the manoeuvrable MiG-19 Farmer and MiG-21 Fishbed fighters in Vietnam.

Other objects on display include one of the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engines from the Messerschmitt Bf 110 flown to Scotland by Rudolf Hess, a Bristol Hercules engine, a Bristol Pegasus engine displayed alongside a Harrier jump jet, a Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet displayed next to a Lightning, a jeep, several Hispano-Suiza 20mm cannons, Martin-Baker ejection seats, air-to-air missiles including the AIM-7 Sparrow, and a reconstruction of a 1950s shop with displays of model kits manufactured by Airfix, Frog, Matchbox, Revell and others.

* AIM-7 Sparrow, an air-to-air missile