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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... u don't have to know a écrit dans le message : ... What happen to obsolete weapons as AIM-7 Sparrow which have been replaced by AIM-120 ? Destroyed or stored ? Thierry |
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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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