AIM-47 Falcon, originally GAR-9, was a very long-range high-performance air-to-air missile that shared the basic design of the earlier AIM-4 Falcon....
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The Hughes AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force. Development began in 1946; the weapon was first...
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The AIM-26 Falcon was a larger, more powerful version of the AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile built by Hughes. It is the only guided American air-to-air...
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with the Hughes AN/ASG-18 fire-control radar and could be armed with AIM-47 Falcon (GAR-9) air-to-air missiles. Its maiden flight was on 7 August 1963...
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and left the capable AIM-47 Falcon missile at a quite advanced stage of development, but with no effective launch platform. The AIM-54 Phoenix, developed...
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Look up falcon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey. Falcon may also refer to: Millennium Falcon, a fictional...
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However, while the USAF had passed on the Phoenix and its own similar AIM-47 Falcon/Lockheed YF-12 to optimize dogfight performance, it still needed a multiple-launch...
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Hughes AIM-47 Falcon missile, which also had a range of about 100 miles. While development work was done with the XF-108, the AN/ASG-18 and Falcon missiles...
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missile radars in Vietnam. Using existing airframes from the cancelled AIM-47 Falcon heavy air-to-air missile project combined with the seeker head of the...
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1986, p. 51. Goodspeed 2000, p. 77. O'Connor, Sean (2004). "AIM-47: Hughes GAR-9/AIM-47 Falcon". Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles. Retrieved...
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the end of 2022, Falcon 9 was launched 117 times, all successful, and landed boosters successfully on 111 of those flights. Falcon Heavy was launched...
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Rapier had much better performance than the Missileer, although its AIM-47 Falcon and AN/ASG-18 radar, both from Hughes, were somewhat less advanced than...
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SM-64 Navaho cruise missile (cancelled 1957) W42 for MIM-23 Hawk SAM, AIM-47 Falcon AAM, AAM-N-10 Eagle AAM (cancelled 1961) W44 for RUR-5 ASROC SSM (1961–1989)...
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interceptor version was capable of launching a Mach 4 version of the AIM-47 Falcon missile, capable of hitting bombers flying at extremely low altitude...
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Hughes H-1 Racer Hughes H-4 Hercules Hughes XF-11 AIM-4 Falcon AIM-26 Falcon AIM-47 Falcon AIM-54 Phoenix AIM-120 AMRAAM AGM-65 Maverick BGM-71 TOW Brazo HS-333...
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'24 '25 Falcon 9 v1.0 Falcon 9 v1.1 Falcon 9 Full Thrust Falcon 9 FT (reused) Falcon 9 Block 5 Falcon 9 Block 5 (reused) Falcon Heavy 25...
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JASSM (USA) AIM-4 Falcon (USA) AIM-7 Sparrow (USA) AIM-9 Sidewinder (USA) AIM-47 Falcon (USA) AIM-54 Phoenix (USA) AIM-120 AMRAAM (USA) AIM-132 ASRAAM...
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(India) AIM-4 Falcon AIM-7 Sparrow AIM-9 Sidewinder AIM-26 Falcon AIM-47 Falcon AIM-54 Phoenix AIM-68 Big Q AIM-82 AIM-97 Seekbat AIM-95 Agile AIM-120 AMRAAM...
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'17 '18 '19 Falcon 9 v1.0 Falcon 9 v1.1 Falcon 9 Full Thrust Falcon 9 FT (reused) Falcon 9 Block 5 Falcon 9 B5 (reused) Falcon Heavy 5 10 15...
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The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Interception Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and...
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retired in 2004 AIM-47 Falcon AIM-7 Sparrow – medium-range, semi-active radar-guided AIM-9 Sidewinder – short-range, IR-seeking AIM-92 Stinger – short-range...
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A large number of variants of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon have been produced by General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and various licensed manufacturers...
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HOT (Franco-German) antitank missile FC/ASW / FMAN/FMC (Franco-British) Falcon (IRIS-T SL missile) (Germano-Swedish-American) land-based SHORAD system...
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The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for...
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A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The...
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and the Falcon 900 are the only trijets still in production, as of 2024[update]. Dassault launched the FNX at the 2001 Paris Air Show, aiming for a 10...
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Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX...
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non-NATO US ally, are the primary operators of General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. With the evolution of sales under Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contracts...
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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster (redirect from Falcon Heavy dummy payload)
electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin...
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to Class 57s between 1998 and 2004. The Class 47 history began in the early 1960s with the stated aim of the British Transport Commission (BTC) to remove...
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