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R-27 T. The Vympel R-27 (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo) is a family of air-to-air missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the late Cold War-era.It remains in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces, air forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States and air forces of many other countries as the standard medium-range air-to-air missile despite the development of the more advanced R-77.
Vympel. Directorate "V" of the FSB Special Purpose Center, often referred to as Spetsgruppa "V" Vympel ( pennant in Russian, originated from German Wimpel, and having the same meaning [1] ), but also known as KGB Directorate "V", Vega Group, is one of the two tier one spetsnaz units of the FSB under the command of the FSB . Vympel is the sister ...
Work began in 1973, operational in 1982 and the first missiles formally entered service in 1984. [5] The R-73 is an infrared homing (heat-seeking) missile with a sensitive, cryogenic cooled seeker with a substantial "off-boresight" capability: the seeker can detect targets up to 40° off the missile's centerline. [6]
The Vympel R-37 (NATO reporting name: AA-13 "Axehead") [1] is a Russian hypersonic air-to-air missile with very long range. The missile and its variants also had the names K-37, izdeliye 610 and RVV-BD (Ракета Воздух-Воздух Большой Дальности (Raketa Vozduh-Vozduh Bolshoy Dalnosti), "Long range air-to-air rocket"), and the NATO codenames "Axehead" and "Andi". [2]
July 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM. By Maayan Lubell, Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam. JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people ...
Vympel, a which had merged to be part of TRV, has been developing a more extensive upgrade of the missile than the R-77-1. Designated the izdeliye 180, or K-77M, this missile is a mid-life upgrade for the missile and is intended to be the main medium-range missile for the Sukhoi Su-57. This upgrade aims to provide a further improvement in range ...
Vympel started out after World War II as OKB-134, with Ivan I. Toropov [] leading the team. The first product they designed was the K-7 missile. Their first missile built in serial production was the K-13 (R-13) in 1958.
R-73 Vympel Russia: 1982– 105 kg 7.4 kg Fragmentation 20–40 km Mach 2.5 R-77 Vympel Russia: 1994– 175 kg 22 kg Blast/fragmentation 80–160 km Mach 4.5 K-5 Soviet Union Russia: 1957–1977 82.7 kg 13 kg High explosive warhead: 2–6 km Mach 2.33 R-27 Soviet Union Russia: 1983– 253 kg 39 kg Blast/fragmentation, or continuous rod