‹ TORSALVO Codex
🇺🇸 AIM-120 AMRAAM
Air · Raytheon (RTX) — ABD · 2015 (AIM-120D); D-3/F3R sahada 2024
The AIM-120 AMRAAM is the West's standard beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile; its active radar seeker lets a fighter 'fire and forget' multiple targets at once — the most widely fielded BVR missile in the world.
Specifications
- Type: Beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile, all-weather
- Manufacturer / origin: Raytheon (RTX), USA — engine: Nammo
- Dimensions: Length 3.65 m · diameter 178 mm · wingspan 484 mm
- Weight: ~152-161 kg (depending on version)
- Propulsion: Solid-fuel rocket motor (boost-sustain)
- Speed: ~Mach 4 (≈4,900 km/h)
- Range: AIM-120D ~160 km (~50% more than C-7); D-3 is even longer
- Guidance: Inertial + mid-course datalink (GPS-assisted IMU) + terminal active radar
- Warhead: ~20 kg high-explosive blast-fragmentation
- Platforms: F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, F-35, Typhoon, Gripen, Rafale + NASAMS (ground)
- Service year: AMRAAM 1991; AIM-120D 2015; D-3/F3R 2024
Beats: AIM-120C-7 (ABD) — D sürümü ~%50 daha uzun menzil, GPS destekli IMU ve genişletilmiş kaçış-yok zarfı, R-77 / RVV-AE (Rusya) — daha temiz aktif radar arayıcı, daha güvenilir at-ve-unut ve veri bağı entegrasyonu, PL-12 / SD-10 (Çin) — daha olgun, muharebe-kanıtlı ve geniş platform entegrasyonu
Loses to: Meteor (Avrupa/MBDA) — ramjet motoru sayesinde çok daha geniş kaçış-yok zarfı ve uçtan-uca itki, PL-15 (Çin) — çift-darbeli motor ve AESA arayıcıyla daha uzun nominal menzil, AIM-260 JATM (ABD) — gizli halef; daha uzun menzilde AMRAAM'ı geçmek üzere geliştiriliyor
AMRAAM's active terminal seeker freed fighters from holding a radar lock to the target, enabling simultaneous multi-target engagements. The AIM-120D adds GPS-aided guidance, a two-way datalink and greater range. It is being supplemented by the ramjet-powered Meteor and succeeded by the longer-range AIM-260 JATM, but remains the backbone Western BVR weapon.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Raytheon (RTX) — ABD): Patriot (PAC-3), FGM-148 Javelin, AIM-9X Sidewinder, Raytheon Coyote
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
