{"id":191510,"date":"2009-08-08T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/08\/russia-upgrades-r-77-and-r-73-aams\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T11:18:00","slug":"russia-upgrades-r-77-and-r-73-aams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/08\/russia-upgrades-r-77-and-r-73-aams\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Upgrades R-77 and R-73 AAMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are better known in the west as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-08-10&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/08\/10\/AW_08_10_2009_p55-158437.xml\">AA-12 Adder medium range and AA-11 Archer dogfight missiles<\/a> respectively. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>It looks like there will be improvements in range (about +35% for the R-77), and sensors and off bore-sight capability (R-72).<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising&#8230;There is a lot of performance that can be wrung out of both missiles with technology upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are better known in the west as the AA-12 Adder medium range and AA-11 Archer dogfight missiles respectively. (paid subscription required) It looks like there will be improvements in range (about +35% for the R-77), and sensors and off bore-sight capability (R-72). Not surprising&#8230;There is a lot of performance that can be wrung out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1096,1033,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-missile-defense","category-russia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191510"}],"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=191510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}