{"id":190621,"date":"2009-11-08T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/08\/ground-launched-iris-t-fired\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:53:00","slug":"ground-launched-iris-t-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/08\/ground-launched-iris-t-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground-launched IRIS-T fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/2069\/bcce40f3598147f3ba4ad99.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/2069\/bcce40f3598147f3ba4ad99.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Click for Humongous Picture of IRIS-T SL Launch<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img36.imageshack.us\/img36\/1267\/chaparralmim724931312.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img36.imageshack.us\/img36\/1267\/chaparralmim724931312.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>MIM-72 Chaparral<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Diehl BGT Defense has developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A06ea32d2-e5d6-49be-a3ef-e320668c6154\">ground launched derivative of its short range AAM IRIS-T<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that this system, IRIS-T SL, would be to the IRIS-T, as the Chaparral was to the Sidewinder.<\/p>\n<p>One obvious difference here is that the IRIS-T has a lock after launch capability, and so does not need a trainable launcher, with the resulting savings in weight and complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the missile appears to be modified more than in the Chaparral, where the missile was basically a standard AIM-9D Sidewinder, while the IRIS-T SL uses a booster motor to get the missile out of the tube and up to speed, as well as an a shroud to protect it during the launch phase.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of surprised that it&#8217;s not a vertical launch, but that may be a trade off of coverage versus complexity of the launcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for Humongous Picture of IRIS-T SL Launch MIM-72 Chaparral Diehl BGT Defense has developed a ground launched derivative of its short range AAM IRIS-T. The idea is that this system, IRIS-T SL, would be to the IRIS-T, as the Chaparral was to the Sidewinder. One obvious difference here is that the IRIS-T has a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190621"}],"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=190621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}