Meteor Missile

The meteor is a fast and eminently manoeuvrable Beyond visual Range product line to Air Missile (BVRAAM) air-to-air weapon. Guidance is provided by an active radar quester benefiting from enhanced technologies drawn from the MBDA Aster and Mica missile programmes. The meteor was designed to equip the Euro fighter Typhoons of the UKs Royal Air Force (RAF), Germanys Luftwaffe, Spains Ejercito del Aire and Italys Aeronautica Milit are Italiana, the British and Italian F-35s ( some(prenominal) in the Air Force and Navy), the Dassault Rafales of Frances Armee de lAir and Marine Nationale, and the Saab JAS 39 Gripens of Swedens Flygvapnet.The missile is everyocated targets from the dump aircraft radar and is capable of engaging air targets autonomously by shadow or day, in all hold and in severe electronic warfare environments. The increasing proliferation of state of the art Air to Air threats, that are challenging the already in service Air to Air combat system is a deprecative challenge for modern Air Forces which is answered by the Meteor. The missiles ramjet propulsion system gives Meteor its high speed performance and the energy to defeat fast, manoeuvring targets at long range.Meteor is equipped with both a proximity and impact fuse to ensure get along target destruction in all circumstances. The missile trajectory is controlled aerodynamically using four rear-mounted fins. Meteors control principles are intended to allow high strain rates while maintaining intake and propulsion performance. MBDA Meteor is capable of engaging air targets autonomously, whether fighters, bombers, transport aircraft or cruise missiles by using its active radar seeker by day or night and in all weather or dense EW (Electronic Warfare) environments.Meteors solid give the sack variable-flow rocket/ramjet propulsion system will ensure a range in superabundance of 100 km and a speed of more than Mach 4 and high terminal velocity. Even when launched from innate stand-off ranges, the missile will have the energy in the end game to defeat fast, manoeuvring targets. To ensure total target destruction, the missile is equipped with both proximity and impact fuses and a fragmentation warhead that is detonated at the optimum point to aximise lethality. Guidance is ISN, two-way data link and active Ku-band radar seeker. It can conform to targeting data after launch from the launching fighter or another fighter. The two-way data-link partially solves the IFF trouble at long ranges. It is designed to defeat current and future threats Meteor provides the long stand-off range and high kill probability which combine to ensure air superiority and pilot survivability.