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    The General Dynamics FIM-43 Redeye is a man-portable surface-to-air missile system. It uses passive infrared homing to track its target. Production began...
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    Stinger was intended to supplant the FIM-43 Redeye system, the principal difference being that, unlike the Redeye, the Stinger can acquire the target from...
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    permitting head-on and side engagement profiles. Later versions of the FIM-43 Redeye are regarded as straddling the first and second generations as they...
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    with the US Army FIM-43 Redeye, the Strela-2 was the first Soviet man-portable SAM – full-scale production began in 1970. While the Redeye and 9K32 Strela-2...
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  • Red eye (redirect from Redeye)
    contortrix mokasen common name of the snake Agkistrodon laticinctus FIM-43 Redeye, a man-portable surface-to-air missile system Red-eye flight, a flight...
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    9K34 Strela-3 1981 – 9K38 Igla 1989 – Anza 1975 – Blowpipe 1967 – FIM-43 Redeye 1981 – FIM-92 Stinger 1945 – Fliegerfaust 1995 – PZR Grom 1994 – Type 91 surface-to-air...
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  • (missile family) AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System FIM-43 Redeye FIM-92 Stinger MIM-3 Nike Ajax MIM-14 Nike-Hercules CIM-10 BOMARC MIM-23...
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  • require longer range led to a series of events that would lead to the FIM-43 Redeye a decade later. The US Air Force (USAF) also considered the T17 as an...
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    mount (M24 antitank mine)M24 mine M147 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, FIM-43 Redeye (1961) M151 rocket launcher, BGM-71 TOW (1970) M157 rocket launcher...
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  • Hamlet (fish), a fish of the genus Hypoplectrus HAMLET (protein complex) FIM-43 Redeye, a surface-to-air missile system, known as "Hamlet" in the Danish service...
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    warhead with 6.6 lb (3.0 kg) Octol explosive AIM-9 Sidewinder FIM-92 Stinger FIM-43 Redeye AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Rapier (missile) 9K31 Strela-1 "TM 9-1425-1585-10-1...
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    Second and Third seasons: (ADF Pod launched) M712 Copperhead shells (×6) FIM-43 Redeye missiles (×12) AGM-114 Hellfire missiles (×6) (Auxiliary bay launched)...
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    air-to-air defensive missile project, cancelled during development FIM-43 Redeye (1960) – man-portable surface-to-air missile Atlas (rocket family) (1959)...
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  • 75mm pack howitzer TCM-20 20mm mount Zastava M55A2 20mm AA autocannon FIM-43 Redeye surface-to-air missile M3A1 Light tank AMX-13 Light tank Panhard AML-90...
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    on a small man-portable missile (MANPADS) that would emerge as the FIM-43 Redeye. Entering testing in 1961, the preliminary design proved to have poor...
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  • Talos MIM-14 Nike-Hercules CIM-10 BOMARC MIM-23 Hawk RIM-24 Tartar FIM-43 Redeye MIM-46 Mauler (project) LIM-49 Nike Zeus (project) RIM-50 Typhon LR...
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    in 1972 by the US, and by the ARVN from 1972 to the end of the war. FIM-43 Redeye MANPADS (Man-Portable Air-Defence System) – shoulder-fired heat-seeking...
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  • American surface-to-air missile system that never reached production; see FIM-43 Redeye Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Lancer, a variant of the MiG-21 made for the...
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  • M47 Dragon Anti-tank Missile System Bazooka Series Rocket Launcher FIM-43 Redeye Anti-aircraft Missile MIM-23 Hawk Anti-aircraft Missile M2 Flamethrower...
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    head-on engagements, while infrared homing systems of the era, like the FIM-43 Redeye, were only useful in tail-chase engagements where the missile's short-range...
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    This led to the development and fielding of the FIM-43 Redeye in the mid-1960s and its successor, the FIM-92 Stinger. MANPAD systems were originally utilized...
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  • vooruzhenija i vojennoi theniki PVO suhoputnyh voisk Rossii "General Dynamics FIM-43 Redeye". www.designation-systems.net. Cullen, Tony; Foss, Christopher F, eds...
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    Shipbuilding Division (closed 1986) RIM-24 Tartar FIM-43 Redeye MIM-46 Mauler RIM-66 Standard AGM-78 Standard ARM FIM-92 Stinger AIM-97 Seekbat RIM-116 Rolling...
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    mounted Marder 1, 108 FIM-43 Redeye launchers) 620th Air Defence Battalion (Reserve), Rendsburg, (18x Gepard, 108 FIM-43 Redeye launchers) 630th Air Defence...
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    introduction of the FIM-43 Redeye, SA-7 Grail and Blowpipe. Rapid improvement in the 1980s led to second generation designs, like the FIM-92 Stinger, 9K34...
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  • Missile (or SLAM), a competing design proposal rejected in favor of the FIM-43 Redeye Standoff Land Attack Missile (or SLAM), an over-the-horizon, all-weather...
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  • FGM-77 MAW FGM-148 Javelin FGM-172 SRAW Fieseler Fi 103, the V-1 FIM-43 Redeye FIM-92 Stinger FROG-7 Gabriel (Ship-to-ship and air-to-ship variant) GAF...
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    mid-1975. Production of the FIM-92A began in 1978 to replace the FIM-43 Redeye. Light to carry and relatively easy to operate, the FIM-92 Stinger is a passive...
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    in those platforms. All of these would be further supported by the FIM-43 Redeye shoulder-launched missile. Although the resulting composite system would...
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  • and display unit. Field units, including the Chaparral, Vulcan and FIM-43 Redeye units, used the TADDS as an early-warning display, aiming their optically-guided...
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