AIM-120 AMRAAM
Videos
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidan
On display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
First successful test at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 1982
Grumman F-14 Tomcat carrying an AMRAAM during a 1982 test
AIM-120 AMRAAM (right) fitted in a weapons bay of a F-22 Raptor
Fox (code word)
Videos
Fox is a brevity code used by NATO pilots to signal the simulated or actual release of an air-to-air munition or other combat function. Army aviation elements may use a different nomenclature, as the
AIM-120 AMRAAM
…transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance; as an active seeker missile, NATO pilots thus use the brevity code "Fox Three" when firing the AIM-120. The AMRAAM largely replaced the AIM-7 Sparrow as the principal beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile in US inventory. As of…
Grumman F-14 Tomcat firing an AIM-7 Sparrow | Fox One
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fires an AIM-9 Sidewinder | Fox Two
Grumman F-14 Tomcat fires an AIM-54 Phoenix Missile | Fox Three