3 ms·
Sidewinder was certainly not the first AAM to employ CBDR / collision-course guidance. It was experimented since the late 1940s and early variants of the US Na
by dingaling 9y ago
Sidewinder was certainly not the first AAM to employ CBDR / collision-course guidance.
It was experimented since the late 1940s and early variants of the US Navy's radar-guided Sparrow employed it from 1953 as did the USAF's Hughes Falcon c. 1955. In fact Hughes engineers provided input on the technique to the China Lake Sidewinder team!