On February 11, over the Yukon near the Alaska border, an F-22 Raptor fired an AIM-9X air-to-air missile, which successfully ...

On February 11, over the Yukon bordering Alaska, an F-22 Raptor fired an AIM-9X air-to-air missile, which shot down the still ...

AIM-9X is the fifth generation Sidewinder and is now currently in production. The AIM-9X features a high off-boresight focal-plane array seeker mounted on a highly maneuverable airframe with a ...

(Image credit: U.S. Navy) The four-Sidewinder loadout is only possible because of a new capability that the Navy introduced back in April 2024, which it cleared the AIM-9X to be carried on the F/A ...

The loadout consists of four AIM-9X and five AIM-120 missiles. The US Navy is officially using the term "Murder Hornet" to describe F/A-18 fighter jets armed with nine air-to-air missiles ...