Following the retirement of the F-14 by the U.S.
The AIM-54 has been used in 62 air-to-air strikes, all by Iran during the eight-year Iran–Iraq War. They were replaced by the shorter-range AIM-120 AMRAAM, employed on the F/A-18 Hornet and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet-in its AIM-120D version, the latest version of the AMRAAM just matches the Phoenix's maximum range. In US service both are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006.
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Due to its active radar tracking, the brevity code " Fox Three" was used when firing the AIM-54.īoth the missile and the aircraft were used by Iran and the United States Navy. The combination of Phoenix missile and the Tomcat's AN/AWG-9 guidance radar meant that it was the first aerial weapons system that could simultaneously engage multiple targets. The Phoenix was the United States' only long-range air-to-air missile. The AIM-54 Phoenix is an American radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform.
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