AIM-9B kills

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:47 am

Greetings all,

AIM-9B is not built in many samples and it have some limitations which was normal for this early design. I would like to ask you did this missile make air combat air kill?

Cheers

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:36 am

Wasn't it a 9B fired by a ROC F-86 @ a Chicom Mig that hit the Mig but didn't detonate, that lead the Russians to reverse engineer their Atoll A2A missle?

famvburg · **Joined:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:41 am **Posts:** 540

Wiki doesn't specify a B, but it shows 270 kills. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

Mgawa wrote:

Greetings all,

AIM-9B is not built in many samples and it have some limitations which was normal for this early design. I would like to ask you did this missile make air combat air kill?

Cheers

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:28 pm

It look too much 270 kills for B model. Story for unexploded missile is interesting

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:40 pm

Just find this on dedicated page on Facebook:

The original version was built in 3 almost identical versions, with the majority of missiles produced being of the 9B variant. 80,900 were built by Philco (later Ford) and Raytheon, and a further 15,000 were built by a European consortium. The AIM-9B FGW.2 is a modification made to the European missiles in the late 60s, incorporating a new seeker head designed by BGT with silicium nose dome (silicium is - at infra red wavelengths- more transparent than glass), a cooled seeker and solid-state electronics.

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