Germany and 9 European Countries Medium-Range Infrared Missiles with Shock Capabilities: IRIS-T

IRIS-T, which is the product of a consortium led by Germany, has really many wonderful qualities.
is a missile that will replace aim-9 sidewinder missile produced by a german-led consortium iris-t.

briefly known as aim-9, short-range heat-sensitive missiles, called as aim-9, have been operating in 30 different air forces with minimum airframe change since 1956. it is relatively inexpensive and since only 10% of the produced aim-9 is used, we can think that the producers of iris t missiles no longer need the cheap-cost short-range missile. Although the platforms and their range are similar, an aim-9 missile costs 85 thousand dollars and an iris t costs 400,000 euros.
Why was it needed? used by our country and the latest model aim-9x 200 units ordered by sidewinder can not do three and a half times what the iris t can do?
In order to respond to these, it is necessary to look at the existing inventories of the air force. For example, if we take the Vietnam War, which climbs the climax of air collisions in 1971, it seems that american navy planes tend to use aim-9 missiles up to 5-10 miles away from sight, while at bvr distances up to 20 miles they are aiming to use semi-active radar missiles called aim-7 sparrow. we see. the success rate of these two missiles in the war environment does not exceed 50%. especially in the semi-active aim-7 missile missile missiles until the enemy by locking on the radar waiting to be filled with air from each side of the air is full of warning lights, is not practical and impossible in an environment. The aim-7 is a missile that has been used today. The ins-ol-and-forget-system is capable of achieving up to 70% success.
It is not a big problem to deal with aim-120s at bvr distance, ie 20 miles. but what will happen when the enemy comes closer? Since 1956, the 4-seeker is cheap enough to replace the aim-9 missiles?
Let's say first that the aim-9 missile is heat-guided, that it needs a heat trail to see the target and that it is necessary to perform a shot from the sides either right behind the target or at 20 degrees for successful shots higher than 40%. in the Aegean Sea today called dogfight herze still be eaten because of aim-9. You must lock down the enemy and send the missile to the plane. because it is clear that this missile has the capacity and when it can see the enemy. you can not be sure whether he can hit the shot after throwing flare high-heat emitting flares from the plane at the beginning of the flies, the ability of this aim-9's is limited by the ability.


Returning to iris t
When the producers of this missile merged with eastern Germany in 1990, they saw large amounts of vympel R-73 missiles in the hands of the East German Air Force. r-73 was the number one short range air-to-air missile of the warsaw pact countries. The test results showed that the nato countries, which had passed the literature as aa-11, had seriously underestimated during the cold war. It had a high maneuverability, thrust vectoring capability and a much more demanding ir seeker than the aim-9 series. The Germans terminated their agreements with the American company Raytheon in 1994, who wanted to sell more aim-9 to them and entered the ASRAAM project to develop their own short-range missiles in partnership with Britain. germany, which will contribute to this missile project by developing seekers, would manufacture the missile wall. Britain, uncomfortable with the research conducted on the AA-11, could not agree with Germany and was removed from the German Asraam project. (or if you can write to the press itself as we can say he does not notice at this point). because asraam'in yapamamacağın did not do anything amraam. We can also think that Germany did not want to give more money to the project.
From this point on, Germany's own seeker + casing + thrust vectoring to produce the world market shaaaak he put this new iris-t missile. germany was the older brother of the project with a 46% share, italy sweden and greece were the other partners of the project. The first delivery was made to the German air force in 2005 and shipments started to other partner countries.

the comparative performance of the missile is incredible
electronic counter measure resistance increased by 80%. In close / very close air collisions, the user of aim-9 is very compelling in his / her air force with the ability to change the bearing capacity of 60 degrees per second. a target could be destroyed just behind the aircraft using iris t in three test runs. this missile 180 degrees back and can chase the plane that chases itself. in addition to this, it has 5 to 8 times higher range than aim-9l.

it is important to note that the air force of the irish tycoon was delivered to the air force of the guerrillas in june 2009 and that the dogfight course on the cyprus / cyprus would be very upsetting in a real conflict scenario.
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