Designation:RRG
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| Type | : | Long range space to space / air to air missile. | |
| Service history | : | 2010-2023, RDF (All branches).
2018-2033, SC Navy. 2023- , REF (All branches). |
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| Length | : | 310 cm. | |
| Diameter | : | 53 cm. | |
| Wingspan | : | none. | |
| Weight | : | 470 kg. | |
| Warhead | : | HE fragmentation. | |
| Weight/yield | : | 90 kg. | |
| Propulsion | : | Booster/sustainer rocket engine. | |
| Guidance | : | Combined inertial, IIR and active radar/home-on-jam. | |
| Max speed | : | Mach 6.5. | |
| Range | : | 234 km or 4 kps delta-v. | |
| Platforms | : | Beta, Chimera, Lightning, Monster, Predator, Valkyrie, Bat, Vulture. | |
The Firebird was developed as a very-long range air-to-air/space-to- space missile. Conceptually, the Firebird was the successor to the AIM-54 Phoenix missile developed by the US Navy in the later sixties of the twentieth century. By using the airframe of the RMS-1 'Angel of Death' missile, development costs were cut sharply. Compared to the RMS-1, the Firebird had a seeker better suited for tracking mecha, and of course a non-nuclear warhead. Obviously, only one Firebird could be carried for each RMS-1 or RMS-2, but this excellent long-range missile, designed on the SDF-1, was used from 2010 on by the RDF and REF both in space and in the atmosphere to great effect.
Go to RDF Air-Air/Space-Space Missile Index.
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Content by Peter Walker and Pieter Thomassen, with Rob Morgenstern
Copyright © 1997 Robert Morgenstern, Peter Walker, Pieter Thomassen
Last Updated: Sunday, September 20, 1998 7:00 PM