MICA

摘要

Mica (Missile Intermediat de Combat Aerien) is a medium range fire-and-forget air-to-air missile de veloped by Matra as a replacement for both the Magic and Super 530 mis siles. Two guidance variants of the missile are being manufactured, the MICA-EM (a.k.a. MICA-RF) with an active radar seeker and the MICA-IR with an infrared seeker. Development began in April 1987; the start of series production of the MICA-EM slipped from 1993 to 1995 and initial deploy ment from 1994 to 1999.