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Old September 24th 04, 08:56 PM
tony.anquetil
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3 solutions :
-sold to air forces unable to acquire AMRAAM
-destroy, to comply with desarmement treaty or when out of potential
(missiles are allowed to equipped the aircraft during a number of flight
hours)
-stored in "strategic" warehouse, in case if...


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What happen to obsolete weapons as AIM-7 Sparrow which have been replaced

by
AIM-120 ?
Destroyed or stored ?

Thierry




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Old September 25th 04, 07:43 AM
Swede4198
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A fourth solution is that some were used in flight tests. I did a flight test
that used AIM-4 motors that were shot down the sled tracks at White Sands.
These were motors that were past their shelf life and were condemd from normal
flight. We had a couple of failures but 90% did what we wanted them to do.

3 solutions :
-sold to air forces unable to acquire AMRAAM
-destroy, to comply with desarmement treaty or when out of potential
(missiles are allowed to equipped the aircraft during a number of flight
hours)
-stored in "strategic" warehouse, in case if...



 




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