Warhead: Annular blast fragmentation (conventional) weighing 20.8 pounds (9.36 kg) The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a family of short-range air-to-air missiles carried on a wide range of modern tactical ...

For the Sidewinder warhead to find its target, it had to be fired from the rear hemisphere of the attacked aircraft, where ...

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

The original Block 0 design was based upon the infra-red seeker of the Stinger missile, and the warhead, rocket motor and fuse from the Sidewinder missile. The Block 0 configuration uses Radio ...

AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles — the most common missiles ... It retains only the rocket engine and a warhead weighing about 22 ...