{"id":190359,"date":"2009-12-06T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/06\/israel-looking-at-adapting-atbm-to-aam-use\/"},"modified":"2009-12-06T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T11:26:00","slug":"israel-looking-at-adapting-atbm-to-aam-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/06\/israel-looking-at-adapting-atbm-to-aam-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Looking at Adapting ATBM to AAM Use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Python 5 and Derby<\/p>\n

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Stunner with 2nd<\/sup> stage<\/p>\n

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Rafael’s video Pr0n, H\/t ELP Defens(c)e Blog<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

Israel is looking at using its Stunner anti-missile interceptor as a starting point for follow-ons to their Python 5 and Derby missiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Python is a 6″ diameter short range (20+ km) infrared guided dogfight missile, and the Derby is a slightly lengthened version active radar guided version with with an ogive nose, and other aerodynamic cleanups (and possibly a longer motor) to achieve a range of about 50km, so replacing both of these with one derivative of another missile is certainly in the realm of possibility.<\/p>\n

On the basis of the pictures here, and not much else, it appears that the 2nd<\/sup> stage of the Stunner is about the same size as the Python\/Derby.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how much would be gained by developing a Python replacement on this platform, the as the missile already has excellent kinematics, as shown by the marketing video, though marketing videos should always<\/span> be taken with a bit of a grain of salt.<\/p>\n

That being said, given the Stunner’s configuration, the 2nd<\/sup> stage has a dual pulse motor, the 1st<\/sup> stage that would not be carried in an air launched version, could give significant increases in range and lethality for any potential Derby successor.<\/p>\n

Here is my earlier post on the Stunner missile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Python 5 and Derby Stunner with 2nd stage Rafael’s video Pr0n, H\/t ELP Defens(c)e Blog Israel is looking at using its Stunner anti-missile interceptor as a starting point for follow-ons to their Python 5 and Derby missiles. The Python is a 6″ diameter short range (20+ km) infrared guided dogfight missile, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1159,1006,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-israel","category-military","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190359"}],"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=190359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}