{"id":190228,"date":"2009-12-19T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/19\/raytheon-looks-to-adapt-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-applications\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T12:22:00","slug":"raytheon-looks-to-adapt-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/19\/raytheon-looks-to-adapt-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon Looks to Adapt AIM-9X for Air to Ground Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have conducted tests, and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/03\/335762\/exclusive-raytheon-adapts-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-mission.html\">successfully intercepted a high-speed &#8220;cigarette boat&#8221;<\/a>, which simulates a drug running boat.<\/p>\n<p>The idea here is that if an aircraft encounters a ground target while only armed for air-to-air, it could use the Sidewinder to take out the target.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m wondering why they don&#8217;t just use the cannon.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting bit here is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/f-22-pilot-dies-in-crash.html\">F-22 crash 9 months ago<\/a> might have been a part of this test, as it was reported that the smaller side bay doors were open at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have conducted tests, and have successfully intercepted a high-speed &#8220;cigarette boat&#8221;, which simulates a drug running boat. The idea here is that if an aircraft encounters a ground target while only armed for air-to-air, it could use the Sidewinder to take out the target. Me, I&#8217;m wondering why they don&#8217;t just use the cannon. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}