Tactical Aim Missiles

Abstract

The AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missile is a long term evolution of the AIM-9 series of fielded missiles. The AIM-9X missile program provides a launch and leave, air combat munition that uses passive infrared (IR) energy for acquisition and tracking of enemy aircraft and complements the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. Air superiority in the short-range air-to-air missile arena is essential and includes first shot, first kill opportunity against an enemy employing IR countermeasures. The AIM-9X employs several components common with the AIM-9M (fuze, rocket motor and warhead). Anti-Tamper features have been incorporated to protect improvements inherent in this design. AIM-9X is a Post Milestone III, Acquisition Category IC joint service program with Navy lead. The Block II program has entered into Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) with the Lot 11 (Block II LRIP 1) contract awarded in September 2011, and Lot 12 (Block II LRIP 2) awarded in December 2011. This budget line item will fund the remaining development, test and integration of software updates to the missile and aircraft platform integration to ensure these capabilities perform in accordance with established requirements. The AIM-9X Block III builds upon the incremental acquisition strategy used to develop AIM-9X Block I and Block II to provide increased kinematics, lethality, enhanced IR Counter-Measure performance against emerging advanced threats, and improved Insensitive Munitions performance and will employ several components common with the AIM-9X Block II (advanced seeker, Advanced Optical Target Detector / datalink).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0207161N_7_1319_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Nomenclature has been revised to reflect terminology consistent with Milestones A,B and C vice older Milestone I, II, and III terms, as follows: From IT-IIID to IT-B1, from OT-IIID to OT-C1. Blk II successfully completed a Milestone-C decision on 24 June 2011, therefore the following Contract Lots have been revised: From Lot 11 to Blk II LRIP 1, from Lot 12 to Blk II LRIP 2, from Lot 13 to Blk II LRIP 3, from Lot 14 to Blk II FRP 1, from Lot 15 to Blk II FRP 2, from Lot 16 to Blk II FRP 3. Completion of DT-B1 (previously DT-IIID) has been extended from 1st Qtr FY 2011 to 2nd Qtr FY 2012 to accomodate the software development schedule. Requirement no longer exists for Blk II Operational Test All-Up-Round (OT-IIIC)(2) beginning 1st Qtr 2012; event has been removed. The AIM-9X with 9.2 software enables evolutionary transition to Blk II (e.g. develop AIM-9X hardware but re-host Baseline software). With the added acquisition requirement to establish a separate program for Block II (AIM-9X hardware with OFS 9.3 software) there is no longer a requirement to field AIM-9X All-Up-Round hardware with 9.2.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• 4G Wireless Networks
• Acquisition
• Air Power
• Aircrafts
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Engineering
• Insensitive Explosives
• Materials
• Molecular Dynamics
• Munitions
• Navy Aircraft
• Procurement
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

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