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Switzerland selects the AIM-9X Sidewinder

Bern, Switzerland - It will be destinated to the F/A-18 Hornets

Switzerland has decided to endow its own F/A-18 Hornet medium-light multirole fighters of the AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range air-to-air infrared-guided missile. This choice concerning the last version of such guided rocket produced by Raytheon has been consolidated by the sign of an agreement, which schedules also the possibility for mass producing it. Switzerland so becomes the third international...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 62127
Rome, Italy, 04/22/2004 16:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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