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Speeds from Mach 1.2 to Mach 5.0 are referred to by what term?
Supersonic
Speeds up to Mach 0.8 are referred to by what term?
Subsonic
A missile with a rated speed of Mach 3.2 is fired from an aircraft that is flying at a speed of Mach 2.6. What is the missile’s actual speed after being launched?
Mach 5.8
To prevent certain types of exercise missiles from traveling beyond the target range, what safety measure should be installed in the missiles?
An explosive-destruct charge
Which of the following color codes are used in missile identification?
Yellow, brown, and blue
The serial number of a missile can be found on which of the following missile components?
The leading component
Which of the following missile components is the brain of the missile?
Guidance section
In semiactive homing, target illumination comes from which of the following sources?
An external source to the missile
Passive homing is similar to active homing in which of the following ways?
Passive homing operates independently of the launching aircraft.
A high-explosive warhead used in an air-to-air guided missile contains what range of explosives?
10 to 18 lb
What are the two types of general fuzes used in guided missiles?
Contact and proximity
The safety and arming device on a missile is used for what purpose?
To maintain the explosive train of the fuzing system in a safe condition until certain requirements are met
Which of the following propulsion systems does NOT require oxygen from the atmosphere for its operation?
Thermal jet
Missile propulsion systems use which of the following basic types of jet power plants?
Atmospheric jet and thermal jet
What propulsion system is currently being used in Navy air-launched missiles as an atmospheric jet propulsion system?
Turbojet
Which of the following missile propulsion systems is NOT a thermal jet propulsion system?
Gas propellant
A guided missile that incorporates both a boost phase and a sustaining thrust phase has what designation?
DTRM
What type of guidance system is used in an AIM-7M guided missile?
Semiactive
In an AIM-7M guided missile, the flight control section consists of which of the following components?
An autopilot and a hydraulic group
In an AIM-7M guided missile, what device prevents the motor from being accidentally fired?
A safe/arm igniter
To reposition the safe-arm assembly in an AIM-7M guided missile, what tool should be used?
An arming key
An AGM-84D guided missile is designed to be used against which of the following targets?
Ships
What type of guidance system is used in a Harpoon guided missile?
Active
The control fins should be attached to what section of a Harpoon missile?
The control section
What type of guidance system is used in a Sidewinder guided missile?
Passive
What warhead is used in an AIM-9M guided missile?
WDU-17/B
A Maverick missile uses what type of guidance system?
Laser
The AIM-9X missile interfaces with the aircraft through the missile launcher using an umbilical cable and what?
Mid-body buffer connector
What missile uses guidance provided through reception of signals emitted from ground-based threat radar and has the capability of discriminating a single target?
AGM-88
What weapon has an inherent range capability for the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, that satisfies the stand-off requirements for attacking interdiction targets from outside enemy point defenses during day, night, and adverse weather conditions?
AGM-84K
What missile is a precision wire-guided, high-velocity, short-range antitank/antiarmor, and bunker weapon?
AGM-114
What system compresses and filters ambient air to generate high-pressure pure air used in cooling the Infrared (IR) detector in the missile guidance section?
Pure Air Generating
What is the baseline weapon payload used in the JSOW AGM-154A?
Bomb assembly SUU-81/B which contains 145 BLU-97A/B bomblets
What missile can be fired from tube launchers installed on vehicles, helicopters, or from a tripod on the ground?
BGM-71
What missile has a highly accurate GPS-aided guidance system, an imaging infrared seeker, and a two-way data link with the AWW-13 Advanced Data Link pod?
SLAM-ER AGM-84 H/K
What are the major differences between the variants of the Hellfire Missile?
Warhead section
What is the aircraft suspension and launching system used for the AIM-7 (series) Sparrow and AIM-120 (series) AMRAAM missiles?
LAU-116
The LAU-127 (series) guided missile launcher is designed to carry and launch what type of missile?
AIM-9 and AIM-120
Long-range missiles are usually capable of traveling what minimum number of miles?
100 miles
Speeds from Mach 0.8 to Mach 1.2 are referred to by what term?
Transonic
Speeds above Mach 5.0 are referred to by what term?
Hypersonic
A service missile is usually referred to as what type of missile?
A tactical missile
A training missile is classified as what type of missile?
A nonservice missile
A guided missile is designed to be air-launched as an intercept aerial missile. It is the 9th design and the 13th modification of the design. What designator is assigned to the missile?
AIM-9M
What are the classifications of missile homing systems?
Active, Semiactive, and Passive
Which of the following statements describes an AIM-7M guided missile?
It is a supersonic missile, it is an air-to-air missile, and it is launched from an interceptor aircraft
In an AIM-7M guided missile, the warhead is in what location?
Between the target seeker and flight control section
The missile battery is located in what section of a Harpoon guided missile?
The sustainer section
An AIM-9M Sidewinder guided missile has how many major components?
Five
The control fins should be attached to what section of a Sidewinder guided missile?
The guidance and control section
What modification of an Mk 36 rocket motor is equipped with a safe-arm ignition assembly?
Mod 8
To reposition the safe-arm ignition assembly of an Mk 36 Mod 8 rocket motor, what tool should you use?
A hex-head T-handle
An AGM-88C guided missile is designed to operate in what total number of modes?
Three
The designation AGM-65E identifies what missile?
Maverick
What are the major assemblies of the LAU-7 guided missile launcher?
Housing, mechanism, power supply, and nitrogen receiver
Which of the following guided missile launchers is a complete launching system used with AIM-9M (series) missiles?
LAU-7
In the LAU-7 guided missile launcher, the missile's IR detector is cooled by what means?
A nitrogen receiver
What are the two distinct interface configurations used for the AIM-9X?
Digital and Analog
What launchers are capable of launching the AIM-9X?
LAU-7 and LAU-127
What missile is an antiarmor terminal homing weapon that uses a variety of warhead configurations, including shaped charge, blast fragmentation, and thermobaric?
AGM-114
All versions of Hellfire missiles in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory are carried on what type of guided missile launcher?
M-272/M-299
What reusable missile launcher completes the F/A-18, AV-8, and P-3 aircraft suspension and launching system for the Maverick AGM-65 air-to-ground missile?
LAU-117