{"id":195879,"date":"2008-06-08T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/south-africa-and-brazil-enter-joint-development-for-a-darter-missile\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T14:42:00","slug":"south-africa-and-brazil-enter-joint-development-for-a-darter-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/south-africa-and-brazil-enter-joint-development-for-a-darter-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and Brazil Enter Joint Development for A-Darter Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been working on this missile for some time, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseindustrydaily.com\/south-africa-brazil-to-develop-adarter-sraam-03286\/\">jount development agreement should bring some more resources to the project<\/a>.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19633101\/320187717.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly been delayed a bit, as the SAAF has purchased German IRIS-T missiles as an interim fit.<\/p>\n<p>The A-Darter is a short range IR guided air to air missile, and appears rather similar to the British ASRAAM, with no forward wings, though it has thrust vector vanes in the exhaust, implying a bit more agility off the rail:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19633101\/320187713.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>This would also imply a dual thrust motor, with low thrust in the first second or so, so as to allow for optimum operation of the thrust vector paddles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been working on this missile for some time, and the jount development agreement should bring some more resources to the project. It&#8217;s clearly been delayed a bit, as the SAAF has purchased German IRIS-T missiles as an interim fit. The A-Darter is a short range IR guided air to air missile, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1008,1068,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-defense-procurement","category-latin-america","category-missile-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195879"}],"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=195879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}