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From: gwh%soda.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: ASRAAM (air to air missile)
Summary: Cancelled
Keywords: missile ASRAAM Sidewinder AIM-9
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.041725.23786@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:17:25 GMT
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From: gwh%soda.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)

In article <1991Jan22.015553.20458@cbnews.att.com> cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan) writes:
>Does anyone know if the european ASRAAM (advanced short-range air-to-air
>missile) program is still in existence?   I had heard that it was canceled
>in favor of upgrading the AIM-9 Sidewinder.  Is this true?

The ASRAAM program failed to achive any of it's development/design milestones,
and was cancelled.  The USAF and USN were overjoyed to hear that it was
possible to upgrade the Sidewinder to accomplish all the ASRAAM's goals
and only spending a fraction of the costs estimated to finish the (lagging)
ASRAAM.

As a result, the venerable AIM-9 Sidewinder is going to continue to be updated
and serve with frontline US forces until at least 2010 or 2020.  A truly
timeless design.


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