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AIM-4 Falcon - Wikipedia The Hughes AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force Development began in 1946; the weapon was first tested in 1949 The missile entered service with the USAF in 1956
Arming America’s Interceptors: The Hughes Falcon Missile Family The Falcon missile served as the primary or secondary armament on five major interceptors employed at various times by the USAF, serving with the Air Defense Command (ADC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) primarily under the auspices of NORAD
Armament AIM-4 Missiles - F-106 Delta Dart The AIM-4D, already briefly mentioned above as GAR-2B, was the final operational development of the AIM-4 Falcon It combined the smallerairframe of the GAR-2A AIM-4C with the more modern IR seeker of the GAR-4A AIM-4G, and was the only Falcon missile designed for use against fighters
Hughes AIM-4F Super Falcon Air-to-Air Missile DAYTON, Ohio - Hughes AIM-4F Super Falcon Air-to-Air Missile on display at the National Museum of the U S Air Force (U S Air Force photo) The AIM-4F was the first air-to-air guided weapon to enter service with the USAF, becoming operational in 1955
F-98 GAR-1 AIM-4 Falcon - GlobalSecurity. org In 1956 the AIM-4 Falcon missile became the world's first fully guided Air-to-Air missile to enter operational service The GAR-1 was guided by steerable vanes in the exhaust of the
AIM-4 Falcon - MAPS Air Museum The Hughes AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force Development of a guided air-to-air missile began in 1946 Hughes Aircraft was awarded a contract for a subsonic missile under the project designation MX-798, which soon gave way to the supersonic MX-904 in 1947
Hughes AIM-4 Falcon - Estrella Warbird Museum The Falcon fitted either infrared (IR) or semi-active RADAR homing (SARH) seeker heads, and was propelled by a single-charge 6,000 lb thrust Thiokol motor It was capable of Mach 3 speeds over its six mile range, and over 41,000 of the A, B and C models were produced
Hughes AIM-4 Falcon - Designation-Systems. Net Hughes AAM-A-2 F-98 GAR-1,2,3,4 AIM-4 Falcon The Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the U S Air Force Development started in 1946, when Hughes was awarded a contract to study a subsonic short-range air-to-air missile under project MX-798
Falcon Frustration: the F-4D, the AIM-4D and the mission that prevented . . . The AIM-4 was a hit-to-kill missile, and the pilot had to go through a “Mickey Mouse” (“hit the tit” twice) cockpit procedure to cool the missile’s seeker head, uncage the gyro, then secure a “high tone” IR signal from the seeker head before he could launch the missile
Missile, Air-to-Air, Falcon GAR-1 - National Air and Space Museum The missile had a range of up to five miles and speed of about Mach 2 8 Designed to destroy enemy bombers, it was carried on the F-89-H, F-102A, and F-106A interceptor aircraft Development of the Falcon began in 1947 and it became operational with the U S Air Force in 1956