Raytheon announced in June 2025 that it was awarded a $1.1 billion contract by the U.S. Navy to produce AIM-9X Block II ...

Despite their age, air-to-air missiles like the AIM-9 remain essential as America upgrades to counter rising threats with ...

Egypt is set to receive AIM-120s as part of the NASAMS air defense system, but this could open the door for its F-16s, which ...

The Sidewinder is the most widely used air-to-air missile currently in use by more than 40 nations throughout the world. The AIM-9 is one of the oldest, ...

The Sidewinder line was a series of gaming peripherals produced by Microsoft, starting in the 1990s. After some initial stumbles, several cutting edge joysticks were released, at a time when the ho… ...

An AIM-9X Sidewinder missile shoots off the rail of an F-16 flown by Capt. Spencer “Memphis” Bell, over the test range at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, Apr. 24, 2019 (Tech. Sgt. John ...

In 1956, the Sidewinder went to sea, secretly deployed aboard carrier-based fighter jets for the first time; the U.S. Navy publicly revealed the missile’s existence a year later.

While Sidewinder missiles for various fighter jets routinely cost over $400,000, he said that cost becomes negligible in the larger context due to such defense items already being paid for in ...

The sidewinder, known formally as Crotalus cerastes, has mastered the art of traversing the sandy deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

It’s known as the Arizona Sidewinder, or to locals, simply The Sidewinder. Eastbound Route 66 leaves California and crosses the Colorado River into Arizona, where it unfurls like a ribbon of ...