FMRAAM Knowpia

FMRAAM
FMRAAM
Type	Medium-range, active radar homing air-to-air missile
Place of origin	United States
Production history
Manufacturer	Hughes/Raytheon
Specifications
Warhead	High explosive blast-fragmentation
Engine	Aérospatiale liquid fuelled RASCAL (RAmjet for Small CALibre) system
Guidance; system	inertial guidance, two way data link, active radar homing
Launch; platform	Aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon (originally planned);

The FMRAAM (Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile) was a modified ramjet powered version of the Hughes (now Raytheon) AIM-120 AMRAAM beyond visual range air-to-air missile that was conceived during the mid-1990s to fulfill British requirements for a new longer range missile to use in place of the AMRAAM on their new Eurofighter Typhoon fighter.^[1] It competed with and lost to the MBDA Meteor, thus never reaching production.^[2]

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^ "Hughes pitches missile at FMRAAM project, Europe". Jane's Defence Weekly. Jane's Information Group. September 11, 1996. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
^ "MBDA Meteor - BVRAAM". Archived from the original on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2013-01-09.

[1] "Hughes pitches missile at FMRAAM project, Europe". Jane's Defence Weekly. Jane's Information Group. September 11, 1996. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-02-11.

[2] "MBDA Meteor - BVRAAM". Archived from the original on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2013-01-09.

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