RTX Corporation’s RTX business unit, Raytheon, won a $736-million contract to manufacture the improved Block II variant of its AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles. The award has been offered by the U.S ...

Those Sidewinder missiles, produced by Raytheon Technologies, cost some $439,000 each, according to Bloomberg News. That figure is based on the Defense Department’s desire to procure 255 ...

The Pentagon said on Sunday that an F-16 fighter jet had fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile to "successfully shoot down an airborne object" flying over Lake Huron, in Michigan.

Recently an F-22 using a Sidewinder missile shot down a mylar Chinese balloon reported to be above 60,000 feet. ... Sidewinders cost between $209,493 and $399,500 depending on model type.

Each AIM-9X Sidewinder missile costs up to about $400,000. The federal government has yet to confirm whether the object it shot down did, in fact, belong to the Bottlecappers.

An AIM-9X Sidewinder missile shoots off the rail of an F-16 flown by Capt. Spencer “Memphis” Bell, over the test range at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Apr. 24, 2019 (Tech. Sgt. John ...

An F-22 downed a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday with a single AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. But the Pentagon wasn't sure if the missile would work when the pilot fired it, a top commander said.