Friday, March 19, 2010

Meteor

IOC: 2010

Origin
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom

Contractor/s
Boeing
EADS
MBDA
Saab

Applications
JAS 39C Gripen
JAS 39D Gripen
Typhoon
Typhoon T1

Description: The Meteor will be a long-range, highly flexible, agile, air-to-air missile enabling engagements at visual and beyond visual range. The Meteor missile will be able to engage fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, AWACS, air tankers and cruise missiles using its INS navigation system, active radar seeker and countermeasures-resistant design. Meteor will be powered by a ramjet propulsion system providing a range in excess of 100 km at Mach 4.

The European Meteor missile features high maneuverability and a fragmentation warhead detonated by impact or proximity to ensure highly maneuverable targets destruction. The Meteor will be used by Typhoon (formerly Eurofighter), Rafale and Gripen as well as other advanced fighters worldwide.

Specifications
Dimensions: Length 3.7 m

Performance: Max Range 100,000 m (328,084 ft), Top Speed 1,330 mps (Mach 4)

News
Meteor Air-to-Air Missile Successfully Test Fired in Sweden

Gripen Conducts Successful High Altitude Firing with Meteor

Saab Gripen to Continue Carrying out Meteor Flight Tests until 2010

Meteor Firings Successfully Completed on Gripen

Full Range of Rafale M Weapons Tested on Charles de Gaulle

AMRAAM Selected as UK Interim BVR Missile

Thales Awarded Contracts for Rafale-related Support and Development Services

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Notes
(*) lead contractor
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
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