{"id":199910,"date":"2007-06-19T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/picture-saab-gripen-fires-first-iris-t-air-to-air-missile-18-06-2007-london-flightglobal-com\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:02:00","slug":"picture-saab-gripen-fires-first-iris-t-air-to-air-missile-18-06-2007-london-flightglobal-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/picture-saab-gripen-fires-first-iris-t-air-to-air-missile-18-06-2007-london-flightglobal-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture: Saab Gripen fires first IRIS-T air-to-air missile-18\/06\/2007-London-Flightglobal.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I&#8217;ve read about the new Sidewinder, the AIM-9X implies that it&#8217;s hot stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The seeker may be very good, but it has a 5&#8243; diameter missile body, and is competing against missiles with 6&#8243; missile bodies, like the IRIS-T, ASRAAM, Python 5, and Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer).<\/p>\n<p>It has to have inferior kinematics to these missiles.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/06\/18\/214680\/picture-saab-gripen-fires-first-iris-t-air-to-air-missile.html\">Picture: Saab Gripen fires first IRIS-T air-to-air<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Craig Hoyle<\/p>\n<p>Saab conducted the first test firing of a Diehl BGT Defence IRIS-T short-range air-to-air missile from a Gripen fighter over Sweden&#8217;s Vidsel test range on 12 June, during the 6,000th test flight of a JAS39.<\/p>\n<p>Involving high-speed weapon release from a JAS39B test aircraft flying at around 2,000ft (610m), the unguided test was &#8220;a complete success&#8221;, says Saab test pilot Fredrik M\u00fcchler.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/RnhFkf4EcmI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/Il_IXMqgjXY\/s400\/gripen1.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/RnhFkv4EcnI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/DLYtZIk5jug\/s400\/gripen2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I&#8217;ve read about the new Sidewinder, the AIM-9X implies that it&#8217;s hot stuff. The seeker may be very good, but it has a 5&#8243; diameter missile body, and is competing against missiles with 6&#8243; missile bodies, like the IRIS-T, ASRAAM, Python 5, and Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer). It has to have inferior kinematics to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199910"}],"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=199910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}