Meteor Missile

Running head: METEOR MISSILE

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MBDA METEOR Jhon Bairon Restrepo Valoyes 4.2 Superficie Oceanógrafo

Escuela Naval de Cadetes “Almirante Padilla” Cartagena, Barrio Bosque (Manzanillo) Telephone: 3127882995 E-mail: jhon_pope@msn.com Instructor: TNEAN Asela Rosas Alejandro

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Meteor missile is a missile project air-air mode, is long range active radar-guidedscope beyond visual range BVRAAM here if this project is scheduled for 2014, this missile is being developed by a European conglomerate MBDA-led with the aim to equip Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the UK, Germany's Luftwaffe, the Air Force in Spain and Italy's Aeronautica Militare, Dassault Rafale France, Saab 39 Gripen from the Swedish Air Force, and possibly F-35of the Royal Navy. The Meteor is intended to compete with the AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile), which is significantly lower performance presuppose respect to its European rival. According to MBDA, Meteor has three to six times the kinematic performance of existing air-air missiles in its class, and the key to Meteor's outstanding performance is the jet engine, produced by thecompany Bayern-Chemie/Protac (BC) in Germany. is a powerful missile, but in turn is very costly for the economies of countries like Colombia.

Key words: Project, BVRAAM, European conglomerate MBDA, AEGIS, AMRAAM, Bayern-Chemie/Protac (BC).

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MBDA METEOR MBDA, a world leader in missiles and missile systems, is a multi-national group with over 10,000 employees in France,the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and the United States. It was formed through the merger of AÉROSPATIALE-MATRA MISSILES (of EADS), FINMECCANICA and MATRA BAE DYNAMICS in December 2001. MBDA designs and manufactures missiles and missile systems to meet the full range of needs of current and future operation in all fields are required. In general, the Group offers a range of 45 products in serviceand another 15 in development within which we will find the METEOR MISSILE.

Meteor is a missile project, is in the preproduction phase, is being designed by UK, Germany, Italy and Spain (the Eurofighter nations), France and Sweden Possibly. It is developed to operate from three platforms: Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen (assuming that the participation of Sweden), but can also be integrated intothe F-35 Lightning. The missile will significantly enhance the capabilities of these aircraft and their sales potential. The missile incorporates the Beyond Visual Range Air Program to Air Missile (BVRAAM) being managed by an integrated project team within the Defence Procurement Agency, and is the first weapon system for Eurofighter. The combination of Eurofighter and a rocket whose range andexhaust area than any other current or projected system in the next decade will ensure dominate the battle aur Wolrd giving air superiority beating. The Meteor missile
will be able to engage fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, AWACS, air tankers and cruise missiles using its INS navigation system, active radar seeker and countermeasures-resistant design.

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The maincompetition of this missile is mid-range semi-active missile AIM-120C from Raytheon, which have the system AMRAAM (Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile). The METEOR has a longer range, improved speed and tracheal displacement contacts, also has several additional technological advances. Here you can see different graphical comparisons between the capabilities of the two missiles.

A single fighterplane equipped with an operating load of missiles BVRAAM has the potential to destroy even the most vulnerable enemy targets before they reach combat range, and can also perform long-distance bombing. The guided missile system handles initial mechanism of targeting according to their priority, once selected, these are launched to intercept the target, during the initial flight of the missile,...