But is it a model like some of the others you see circulating?
First image. Looks an aweful lot like a Ramjet missile in 1996
lol, just found the same image too:
Yeah, it looks like it to me too.
Here’s the original image:
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So you never know :D
Viggen Di (Super-late) with those alongside a Tornado F3 (Super-late) With Meteor
:P
Supposedly the Di was used to test early Meteor launches.
huh. i wonder who fired the first arh ramjet missile itw, russia or sweden now
America if you count SAM’s
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honestly surprising, surprised then that they didn’t use them on their air to air missiles. I thought only the Europeans and russians took ramjet technology seriously.
I mean, the CIM-10 is a massive missile, and technically America was the first AtA ARH missile user, with the Phoenix ofc, but first ARH AtA ramjet 100% goes to the Meteor or at least the early S225XR.
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idk what the s225xr is (never heard of it) but meteor at least from what I understand didn’t even formalize development until the 2000s, while by 1999 ramjet r-77s had already been test fired.
did s225xr actually exist? just from wikipedia (ik, not greatest source) it says it was never completed, just was developed into meteor
Short answer (partly because i dont know a huge amount)
1978 SAAB starts work on:
RB-71 - Skyflash with ARH seeker
RB-73 - Skyflash with Ramjet
1988 BAe took over or something due to lack of funds and continued to develop the Skyflash Active
1990 Eurofighter requirements start coming out
1992 S225X is developed as a continuation/evolution of the Skyflash Active/RB73 with wingless design
1994 S22XR is developed as a Ramjet version was unveiled
S22XR and its team behind it merged with other European teams which would go on to create the Meteor.
I have no idea if it was actually ever fully functional. But im fairly certain at the very least all the parts were built (Skyflash Active/RB73 seeker, Ramjet, etc) but im not even sure if Skyflash Active even had an actual test firing
Flame probably has a load of docs for all this from the national archives
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R-77 with a ramjet wasn’t a production model though.
We do have that one image of the worker with the early missile but no idea what stage it was in development
Edit: Wind tunnel model of a Volvo Flygmotor ramjet Rb 73 design
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God i’d love to get SRAAMs on other platforms like the FGR2
Wait is the S225X what your guys were calling the RB73? Earlier? Cause the books shows them as two separate missiles
Take a look at the image i posted this book lists RB73 as a different missile i think
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No. different missile.
RB73 was Ramjet Skyflash
S225X was an evolution of that project but a new missile
at least that is my understanding of it
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Ah makes sense, wonder if more is talked about in the book, probably i found a free copy online
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