The FMRAAM (Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile) was a modified
ramjet powered version of the
Hughes (now
Raytheon
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AIM-120 AMRAAM Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile
In military terminology, a missile is a missile guidance, guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles are thus also called guided missiles or guided rockets (when a previously ...
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. It competed with and lost to the
Meteor (missile), thus never reaching production.
See also
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AIM-152 AAAM
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KS-172
References
International air-to-air missiles
Raytheon Company products
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