ASRAAM, the Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile, is an imaging infrared homing missile built by MBDA UK for close-range air combat, and it also carries the United States designation AIM-132. It was meant to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder in Royal Air Force service, and it is designed so that a pilot can fire and turn away before an opposing aircraft closes for a shot. The missile flies at more than Mach 3 to ranges beyond 25 kilometres. The project began in the 1980s as a British and German collaboration; Germany left in 1989, Britain carried on alone, and the first missiles reached the RAF in late 1998. The Royal Australian Air Force also used it, and it is the base design for the CAMM surface-to-air family.
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produced by MBDA UK
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the missile was introduced into RAF service in 1998
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It is in service in the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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imaging infrared homing air-to-air missile
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In December 1998 the first ASRAAM missiles were delivered to the RAF
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