AIM-47 Falcon
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The Hughes 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. It was developed in 1958 along with the
An AIM-47A waiting to be loaded aboard a YF-12.
AIM-54 Phoenix
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The AIM-54 Phoenix is an American active radar-guided, beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platfor
AIM-47 Falcon
…whose production was itself cancelled after only 3 vehicles) was armed with them. It was never used operationally, but was a direct predecessor of the AIM-54 Phoenix used on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. In the early 1950s, the United States Air Force developed requirements for a high speed, high performance interceptor…
AIM-54A on an F-14 at NAS Patuxent River, 1984
An AIM-54A launched from the NA-3A-testbed in 1966
AIM-54 Phoenix seconds after launch (1989)
An AIM-54 hitting a QF-4B target drone, 1983