FMRAAM

FMRAAM
Type	Medium-range, active radar homing air-to-air missile
Place of origin	United States
Production history
Manufacturer	Hughes/Raytheon
Specifications
Warhead	High explosive blast-fragmentation

Engine	Aérospatiale liquid fuelled RASCAL (RAmjet for Small CALibre) system
Guidance system	inertial guidance, two way data link, active radar homing
Launch platform	Aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon (originally planned)

The FMRAAM (Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile), was a modified ramjet powered version of the Hughes (now Raytheon) AIM-120 AMRAAM Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile that was conceived during the mid-1990s to fulfill British requirements for a new longer range missile to use in place of the AMRAAM on their new Eurofighter Typhoon fighter.^[1] It competed with and lost to the Meteor (missile), thus never reaching production.^[2]

References

Raytheon

Subsidiaries	A.C. Cossor ELCAN Optical Technologies Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services HRB Systems Raytheon Missile Systems Raytheon Polar Services Company Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems Sarcos ThalesRaytheonSystems

Products	AGM-65 Maverick AGM-88 HARM AGM-129 ACM AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon AGM-176 Griffin AIM-9 Sidewinder AIM-54 Phoenix AIM-120 AMRAAM ALE-50 towed decoy system ALR-67 Radar Warning Receiver AN/ALE-47 AN/APG-63 radar family AN/APG-65 radar family AN/APG-79 AN/APQ-181 AN/AQS-20A AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR AN/AWG-9 AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System AN/PAS-13 AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite AN/SPS-49 AN/SQQ-32 Mine-hunting sonar AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder radar AN/TPQ-53 Quick Reaction Capability Radar ASARS-2 Beechcraft AQM-37 Jayhawk Tomahawk Controlled Impact Rescue Tool Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar FGM-148 Javelin FIM-92 Stinger FMRAAM GBU-53/B Ground-Based Midcourse Defense HARM targeting system JLENS Mark 48 torpedo Mark 54 MAKO Lightweight Torpedo MIM-23 Hawk MIM-104 Patriot Network Centric Airborne Defense Element Paveway Paveway IV Phalanx CIWS Pyros RAYDAC Raytheon Lectron Raytheon Sentinel RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile RIM-66 Standard RIM-67 Standard RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 Sea-based X-band Radar SLAMRAAM Space Fence Vigilant Eagle

Related	Raytheon 9

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