The US Navy has introduced the AIM-174B, an extremely long-range air-to-air missile, in the Indo-Pacific, aiming to counter China’s aerial dominance. This deployment is part of a broader ...

The forthcoming AIM-260 air-to-air missile should close part of this gap, but it's doubtful it will approach the reach of an SM-6. The ability to strike targets on land and at sea, and also do so ...

Weight: AIM-120A/B/C-4 348 pounds; AIM-120C 5/6/7/D 356 pounds. The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range, Air-to-Air missile is a new generation air-to-air missile. It has an all-weather, beyond-visual ...

In the Navy, it would also replace or supplement the new AIM-174B, the air-launched variant of the SM-6. In most likelihood, its development started to counter the PLAAF’s advances in missile ...

The radar-guided SM-6, redesignated the AIM-174B for air-to-air use, is a massive missile weighing nearly a ton and ranging at least 220 miles – if not farther. And it “will massively change the ...

such as the SM-6 missile, Guidance Enhanced Missile, the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, Tomahawk, Standard Missile 2 and the AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles, in addition to RAM.

and Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) programs. The award has been provided by the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. The work related to this contract will be performed in Tucson, AZ.