(Europa) Royal Air Force

[Rob]

Waffen der RAF:

Storm Shadow:

The missile is the BAe version (with some UK enhancements) of the French Matra APACHE/SCALP missile and entered service in late 2002. It will be fitted to Tornado GR4, Harrier GR7 and the Eurofighter Typhoon. The RAF is believed to have purchased an initial batch of 500 missiles. The programme cost is some £980m.

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listings/rafstormb.jpg

Brimstone:

It replaces the BL755 cluster bomb in the anti-armour role, and will be carried by Tornado GR4/4a, Harrier GR7/9 and Eurofighter Typhoon.

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ALARM:

Once a target has been identified, the motor is re-ignited and the missile makes a supersonic dive onto the target. The total RAF buy in the first manufacturing run was believed to be some 750 missiles.

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listings/rafalarmb.jpg

BL755 Cluster Bomb:

Each of these compartments contains 21 bomblets making a total of 147 bomblets in all. After the bomb has been released from the aircraft, the 147 bomblets are ejected and fall to the ground, covering a wide area. As each individual bomblet hits a target, a HEAT charge is detonated which can fire a large slug of molten metal through up to 250 mm of armour.

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Paveway Reihe (Paveway2/3/Ehanced Paveway) :

Shortcomings in target acquisition during the 1999 Kosovo conflict resulted in a requirement for the RAF to obtain a weapon to satisfy all-weather 24-hour tasking. The Enhanced Paveway (EPW) family of weapons meets this requirement, and the EPWII entered service in 2001 and the larger EPWIII entered service in late 2002.

Paveway 2:
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ASRAAM:

ASRAAM is a fast, highly agile, fire and forget IR missile for short range air-to-air combat, able to counter intermittent target obscurity in cloud and severe Infra-Red countermeasures.
It is carried on Tornado F3, Harrier GR7/9, and Sea Harrier FA2, and the Eurofighter Typhoon. It will replace Sidewinder AIM-9L albeit that this will remain in service in parallel for a period.
The programme cost some £857m. There were considerable technical problems and delays.

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listing...sraamb.jpg

Sidewinder AIM-9L:

The Sidewinder missile, which is carried by all the RAF combat aircraft as well as the Hawk and Nimrod MR2, is an infra-red weapon which homes onto the heat emitted by a hostile aircraft's engines.

http://www.armedforces.co.uk/raf/listing...inderb.jpg

Sky Flash:

Skyflash is in service on F3 air-defence variant of the Tornado. It was the RAF's major air-defence weapon before the acquisition of AMRAAM.

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AMRAAM:

This system is in use by Tornado F3, and will be used by the Eurofighter Typhoon. In addition, trials were underway during late 2000 with AMRAAM fitted to Jaguar GR1B. AMRAAM has been in service with the Fleet Air Arm since 1995, and the initial purchase was believed to be some 210 missiles worth some £50m.
For Eurofighter, the current cost for AMRAAM procurement is £214m with deliveries planned to begin from mid-2005.

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Meteor (BVRAAM):

Meteor is a collaborative programme with five partner nations; Germany, Spain and Italy (for Eurofighter), Sweden (for JAS 39 Gripen) and France (for Rafale). The full development and initial production contract worth £1.2bn was signed by the parties in December 2002. In-service date has slipped from 2005 to 2008, and may slip further. Projected RAF cost overall is some £1.4bn.

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Rapier (bedient von RAF Regiment):

Rapier Field Standard B2 consists of an Optical Tracker, a launcher, a Radar and a Generator. The into-action time of the system is thought to be about 15 minutes and the surveillance radar is believed to scan out to 15 km. Each fire unit can therefore cover an Air Defence Area (ADA) of about 100 square kms. Having discharged the four missiles on a Fire Unit, two men are thought to be able to carry out a reload in about three minutes.

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Maverick (anti armour) :

The Maverick missile, which is used by the Harrier GR7 as an anti-armour weapon, entered RAF service in early 2001 and is the latest addition to the RAF's inventory.

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CRV 7:

The CRV-7 is a multiple-function rocket weapon, which uses modular warheads fitted to a universal rocket motor. Each pod contains 17 rockets, which are ripple launched together at the target.

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