{"id":196904,"date":"2008-03-15T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/successful-test-of-meteor-breathing-air-to-air-missile\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:21:00","slug":"successful-test-of-meteor-breathing-air-to-air-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/successful-test-of-meteor-breathing-air-to-air-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Test of Meteor Breathing Air to Air Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 6th of this month, at the <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%3Ad23fe529-8fe6-4e21-9418-c0cb1d6ee579\">Vidsel Missile Test Range in Sweden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s generally in the AMRAAM range of performance, though it offers significantly better kinematics (Range 100+km reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meteor_missile\">the wiki<\/a>, and I&#8217;d bet on more than 150km) due to its solid fuel ramget\/ducted rocket propulsion system.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, it will <br \/><strong>never<\/strong> fit in an F-22 weapon&#8217;s bays, though it might fit in those of an F-35.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s supposed to enter service in about 5 years&#8230;.Yeah&#8230;I know&#8230;what takes so %$#@ing long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 6th of this month, at the Vidsel Missile Test Range in Sweden. It&#8217;s generally in the AMRAAM range of performance, though it offers significantly better kinematics (Range 100+km reported on the wiki, and I&#8217;d bet on more than 150km) due to its solid fuel ramget\/ducted rocket propulsion system. Of note, it will never &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196904"}],"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=196904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}