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From: rqdms@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Dennis Stockert)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: ASRAAM (air to air missile)
Keywords: air missile jet
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.060748.18279@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 06:07:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.015553.20458@cbnews.att.com>
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From: rqdms@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Dennis Stockert)
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 (a companion/complementary program to the U.S. AMRAAM 
program, was terminated some time back (1-2 years) due to technical 
problems.


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