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The MBDA ASRAAM crosses the United Kingdom's borders and arrives in Australia

Sydney, Australia - It will equip the F/A-18 Hornets so significantly increasing the air defence capabilities of the Australian fighters

Australia is the first country to take delivery of the new MBDA AIM-120 ASRAAM air-to-air IR-guided short-range missile after the United Kingdom. Great Britain has already equipped with this guided rocket its own Tornado ADV F.Mk3s, which deployed it during the Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it is also destinated to the EF-2000 Typhoon. Australian Air Force has instead devoted the ASRAAMs to its own...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 101996
Rome, Italy, 08/20/2004 15:39
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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