Is Missile: | yes |
FMRAAM | |
Origin: | United States |
Type: | Medium-range, active radar homing air-to-air missile |
Manufacturer: | Hughes/Raytheon |
Engine: | AĆ©rospatiale liquid fuelled RASCAL (RAmjet for Small CALibre) system |
Filling: | High explosive blast-fragmentation |
Guidance: | inertial guidance, two way data link, active radar homing |
Launch Platform: | Aircraft:
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The FMRAAM (Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile) was a modified ramjet powered version of the Hughes (now Raytheon) AIM-120 AMRAAM beyond visual range air-to-air missile that was conceived during the mid-1990s to fulfill British requirements for a new longer range missile to use in place of the AMRAAM on their new Eurofighter Typhoon fighter.[1] It competed with and lost to the MBDA Meteor, thus never reaching production.[2]