Russian Air-to-Air Missiles

摘要

This report focuses on Russian air-to-air missiles (AAM) which are currently being exported as well as re lated sales from former Soviet plants now in Ukraine. Three of these mis siles are likely to be the predominate types in the export category. The R-73 (AA-11 Archer; shown top right) is a new generation short-range AAM comparable to the ASRAAM in per formance. The R-27 (AA-10 Alamo; shown bottom right) is a family of medium range missiles comparable to the Sparrow.