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When missiles in containers are received aboard ships, what components are installed after the missiles are received?

Wing and fins

What are the two types of guided missiles?

Service and non-service

Organizational level activity personnel enter captive flight data in what software system?

ACES

Missile logbook data is maintained in what software system?

AWARS

What types of guided missiles are used in naval aviation?

Service/Non-service

The service life of an AUR missile begins at what point?

After the missiles components are received and assembled at a Naval Ammunition Depot or Naval Weapons Station

The service life of an AUR missile begins at what location?

The Naval Ammunition Depot or a Naval Weapons Station
What section of the missile guides the missile toward the point of intercept?

Guidance

What is the brain of an air-to-air guided missile?

The guidance section

A guided missile course change is executed by what missile component section?

Control

No matter what configuration the missile is in what number is used to track the missile?

Serial number

What number is used to track a missile during its service life?

Serial number off the leading component

What item determines the serial number of an air launched missile?

The leading serialized component

The date when a component of a weapon requires intermediate level maintenance or testing is defined by what term?

Maintenance Due Date (MDD)

What are the primary purposes of a guided missile?

To destroy and damage

Guided missiles are classified using which of the following factors?

Range, speed, launch environment, mission, and vehicle type
Guided missiles are divided into what two groups?

Service and non-service
In an aircraft, what type of missile guidance system should the operator use to keep a missile on the line of sight to the target?

Passive
What type of missile guidance system depends upon the natural radiation of the target for its guidance?

Passive

What section provides the internal routing for the interconnecting cable between the guidance section and other parts of the missile?

Warhead

In the missile designation AIM-54C, what does the letter "A" indicate?

Launching environment

In a missile designation, what information does the first letter indicate?

Launch environment

In the missile designation AGM-88 what does the "G" indicate?
Surface attack, a vehicle designed to destroy enemy land or sea targets

In the guided missile designator AIM-54C, the letter "C" indicates what?

The third modification of the missile
The missile serial number normally located where on a missile?
Leading component

What does the missile designation RIM indicate?

Ship intercept-aerial guided missile

When a missile is de-canned and placed in the ready service magazine, what is done with the missile log book?

Turned into the Aviation Ordnance Control Center (AOCS) until expended or off loaded

When does the service life of an ALL Up Round (AUR) missile begin?
From the date the AUR is put into ready for issue (AUR) condition or date of manufacture

Repository information on missile logbooks is to be directed to what command?

Yorktown, VA

High explosive warheads used in missiles contain what range of explosives?

10 - 18 pounds of H6/HBX/PBX (N) (Per the AO NRTC, but can vary greatly depending on the type of missile)
What color codes are significant when used in missile identification?


Brown - rocket motor Yellow - warhead


Blue - inert

What are the major sections of a missile?

Guidance, control, armament, and propulsion

Of the following - directing, steering, computing, and tracking which does the guidance section not do?

Steering

What is considered to be the brain of the missile?

Guidance

In a semi-active homing system, the target illuminating transmitter is in which of the following locations - parent aircraft, target aircraft, within the missile, or airborne control aircraft?

The parent aircraft

What type of homing system illuminates targets with a component carried in the missile, such as a radar transmitter?

Active

What is the major difference between semi active and passive guidance?

Passive guidance receives its target information from the natural radiations of the target (Normally heat or RF radiation from radar)

Where does semi-active homing receive its target information?

From an external source such as the aircraft

What type of homing system may not be effective during inclement weather conditions?

Passive Infrared and Semi-Active LASER

What piece of gear inside an aircraft keeps a missile on a straight line to the target?

Transmitter

The Phoenix missile uses what homing system type (s)?

Active, passive, and semi-active

Of the following missiles - AGM - 65E, AIM-7, AIM-120, and AIM-54, which is launched only from F-14 aircraft?

AIM-54C

What type of homing/guidance is employed by the AIM-54 phoenix missile?
Active, semi-active, and passive
The AIM-54C air to air guided missile employs what type (s) of homing capability?

Passive, active, and semi-active

What is the approximate weight of the AIM-54C Phoenix missile?

1,020 lbs

The Phoenix missile is used with what type of airborne missile control system (AMCS)?

AWG-9

When modified, which of the following missiles - Phoenix, Strike, Sidewinder, and Sparrow, can used as a surface - to - air missile?

Sparrow

Of the following missiles AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7, Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder or AIM-120 AMRAAM which can be converted to a surface to air missile?

AIM-7 Sparrow into RIM-7

How much does an AIM-7 Sparrow weigh?

500 lbs

How many AIM-7 Sparrow missiles can be carried by an F-14 aircraft?

Six

What type of homing/guidance is utilized by the AIM-7 Sparrow missile?

Semi-Active

What type of warhead is used by the AIM-7 Sparrow missile?

Continuous rod or blast/fragmentation design

of the following aircraft - EA-6B, F-14D, SH-60B, and F/A -18, which is capable launching a Harpoon guided missile?

F/A - 18

Of the following missiles - Phoenix, Harpoon, HARM, and Maverick, which uses a turbojet engine for propulsion?

Harpoon

What is the designation of the Harpoon missile?

AGM-84 (Turbo Jet Engine)

What features make the AGM-84 less susceptible to radar detection?

Low-level cruise trajectory and over the horizon range

The AGM-84 Harpoon missile uses what type of homing/guidance?

Active
What is the weight class of the AGM-84E SLAM?

1,400 lbs

How many sections to the AGM-84E SLAM?

Four - guidance, warhead, sustainer, and control

What missile has all weather capability and is an anti-ship attack weapon?

AGM-84A-1 Harpoon

What type of warhead/explosive is contained in the warhead section of the AGM-84 harpoon missile?

Penetration blast

What missile uses a turbojet type engine?

AGM-84 Harpoon

What type of fuel is used in the motor of the Harpoon missile?
Jet fuel (JP-5 or JP-10)

Where is the missile serial number located on the AGM-84 Harpoon missile?

Warhead

What type of homing/guidance is used in the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile?

Passive infrared

What type of warhead is used with the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile?

Annular blast fragmentation (WDU-17)

When a plane returns to the flight deck with a CATM-9 Sidewinder missile, what has to be done to safe the missile?

Insert detent wrench into the LAU-7 launcher and turn rocket motor arming "T" handle to safe position

The five major components of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile are?

Guidance and control, target detector, safe and arm device, warhead, rocket motor

What component in the guidance and control section of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile converts electrical guidance commands into mechanical movement of the control fins?

Gas servo assembly

What missile is laser guided, rocket propelled, and designed for use against fortified ground installations, armored vehicles and surface combatants?

AGM-65E
What missile can be configured with either laser or infrared guidance?

AGM-65 Maverick

What type of guidance system is used in the AGM-65E Maverick missile?

Semi-active only

What missile is air to ground, LASER guided, and rocket propelled?

AGM-65E Maverick

The AGM-65E Maverick missile uses what type of guidance?
LASER/Semi-Active

Of the following, Shrike, Maverick, Harm and Harpoon, which is a LASER guided, air to ground missile?

AGM-65E Maverick

What type of warhead is used in the AGM-65?

Penetrating/Blast fragmentation (300 lbs)

What is the approximate weight of the AGM-65?

AGM-65E - 634 LBS




AGM-65F - 685 LBS

The AGM-65 is propelled by what type of motor?

Dual thrust (boost/sustain) solid propellant rocket

HARM missiles are best suited for use on which of the following targets?

Radar emplacements

What missile when used in conjunction with the aircraft's launching avionics, detects, identifies, and locates enemy radar?

AGM-88 HARM

What missile is used against surface targets that radiate electromagnetic energy?

AGM-88 HARM

What missile is used against surface targets that radiate electromagnetic energy?

AGM-88 HARM

What missile (s) did the AGM-88 HARM replace?

AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard Arm

What missile is a passive homing, air to ground, anti-radar, guided missile?

HARM

What type of warhead is used in the AGM-88 HARM?

Directed fragmentation
What is the approximate weight of the AGM-88?
800 lbs

What provides thrust for the AGM-88?
A low smoke, solid propellant, Dual Thrust Rocket Motor (DTRM)

How does the AGM-45 Shrike missile receive its homing signals?

Enemy radar

What air to surface missile has short to medium range and infrared guidance?

AGM-65F Maverick

What is the prescribed range of the AGM-119B Penguin missile?

Short to medium

The AGM-119 Penguin missile uses what kind of homing?

Infrared terminal homing

What air to ground missile has short to medium range, infrared guidance and is used against ships?

AGM-119 Penguin

What missile is an anti-armor, laser guided, air to ground weapon that uses a shaped charge warhead to defeat hard point targets with minimal exposure of the launch helicopter to enemy fire?

AGM-114 Hellfire

The AGM-114 Hellfire missile uses what type of guidance?
Laser

What is the approximate weight of the AGM-114 hellfire missile?

100 lbs

What type of warhead is used in the AGM-114 Hellfire series missile?

Shaped charge or blast fragmentation with incendiary or thermobaric capability depending on the version

What versions of the AGM-114 are approved for shipboard use?

AGM-114B and AGM-114K (That is due to the addition Safe Arm Device (SAD) to these versions)

What guided missile is a supersonic, medium range, air to air weapon with active radar target detection and on-board inertial navigation guidance?

AIM-120 Advance Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM)

Where is the TDD assembly located on the AIM-120?


Forward of the electronics assembly

Where is the electronics assembly located on the AIM-120?

Aft of the seeker and servo assemblies

What is the approximate weight of the AIM-120?

350 lbs

What type of warhead is used in the AIM-120?

Fragmentation

There are how many different Configurations of the TALD?
Three A/B-37U-1 (V) - 1 Chaff Vehicle A/B -37U-1 (V) -2 RF Vehicle ADM-141A/B RF Vehicle

What is the designation of the Tactical Air Launched Decoy (TALD) used for Radio Frequency (RF) emissions?

A/B-37U-1 (V) 2 or ADM-141A/B

What is the designation of the Tactical Air Launched Decoy (TALD) that uses chaff as a decoy?

A/B-37U-1 (V) 1
What is the nominal weight of the TALD chaff vehicle?

382 lbs

What is the nominal weight of the TALD RF vehicle?
400 lbs

What decoy has turbojet propulsion, low-level navigation and provides the Navy operational elements with an effective radar decoy capability?

ADM-141C Improved Air Launched Tactical Decoy (ITALD)
What is the weight of the ADM-141C ITALD?

375 lbs (This includes 47 lbs (6 gallons) of JP-10 fuel)

What missile is an air-to-ground glide weapon that can be employed against a variety of land and sea targets, can incorporate a 500 pound warhead or cluster munition and uses GPS for navigation?

AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW)
What configuration of the JSOW delivers a 500 pound warhead derived from the MK-80 series of weapons?

AIM-154C
What is the weight of the AIM-154C?

1965 LBS
What configuration of the JSOW delivers cluster munitions bomblets?

(a) 145 (b) BLU-197

What is the weight of the AGM-154A?

1,065 LBS

For the LAU-7 nitrogen receiver, what pressure indicator color contains the range 2.2 to 2.8 PSI?
Yellow
The LAU-7/A guided missile launcher nitrogen receiver store what maximum amount of high pressure nitrogen?

3,200 psig

How many psi should be indicated on the LAU-7 nitrogen receiver assembly?

3,200

To cool a missile's IR detector in the guidance system, a LAU-7/A guided missile launcher nitrogen receiver stores what specific amount of high pressure nitrogen?

3,200 psig

The PP-2581/A power supply is a single phase power supply used in what launcher?
LAU-7

What is done to complete the cooling circuit on the LAU-7A missile launcher?

Load missile/connect the umbilical

For information on the LAU-7 launcher refer to what publication?

NA 11-75A-54

What adapter allows suspension of the LAU-7A launcher to the aircraft bomb rack?

ADU-299/E

Of the following components - forward retainer assemblies, sway braces, aft detent blocks, and snubbers, which is used on the LAU-7 launcher prevent movement of a missile in flight?

Snubbers

What holds the AIM-9 in place on the LAU-7 launcher while in-flight?

Detents and snubbers

Longitudinal and lateral movements of a missile loaded on a LAU-7/A missile launcher are prevented by what components?

Forward and aft snubbers

The nitrogen system in a LAU-7 missile is used for what purpose?

Cools the missile's infra-red detector

What missile launcher requires an Eddy current inspection?


LAU-7
What missile launcher incorporates a countermeasures dispenser, which provides a countermeasure capability against radar homing and infra-red seeking missiles?
LAU-138 BOL/Chaff (Modification of the LAU-7/A-6 launcher)

What missile is compatible with the LAU-118 guided missile launcher?


AGM-88 HARM

Of the following launchers - LAU-116, LAU-118, LAU-115, and LAU-117, which is capable if carrying and launching the MAVERICK missile?

LAU-117
What component of the LAU-117A launcher prevents accidental release of the missile?

Missile Restraint Device (MRD) holdback pin

What manual contains LAU-117A (V) 2/A missile launcher intermediate level maintenance information?

NAVIAR 11-75A-79

What component of the LAU-117A launcher prevents accidental release of the missile?

Missile Restraint Device (MRD) holdback pin

On the LAU-117A guided missile launcher, the hold back pin on the MRD can be retracted by moving the bell crank shaft in what direction?

Clockwise

The LAU-118 is used to carry and launch what missile?

AGM-88 HARM

Of the following - LAU-7, LAU-93, Aero 7A-5, and Aero 5B-1, which is suspended from a bomb rack?

Aero 5B-1

What guided missile launcher provides a rail to carry a single AGM-45 Shrike missile?

Aero 5B-1

Of the following guided missile launchers - LAU-92, LAU-93, Aero 5B-1, and the LAU-77A, which is a rail launcher?

Aero 5B-1
During missile loading/unloading, how do you manually unlock the detent on the Aero 5B-1 guided missile launcher?

Pull detent handle up and out lifting the detent clear of the missile

Of the following launchers - LAU-117, LAU-118, LAU-116, and LAU-127, which is capable of launching the AIM-9 series Sidewinder missile?

LAU-127

The LAU-127 missile launcher carries and launches what missile system (s)?

AIM-120 OR AIM-9

On an F/A-18, what missile is launched from a LAU-116A? (hips)

AIM-7 Sparrow or AIM-120 AMRAAM

The LAU-115 launcher is capable of suspending and launching all EXCEPT which of the following missiles - AIM-120, AGM-120, AIM-7, and AIM-9?

AGM-122

How many and what type cads are used with a LAU-116 to shoot a AIM-7 Sparrow missile?

Two (2) CCU-45

The LAU-115 missile launcher used on the F/A-18 provides suspension capabilities for what missile?

AIM-7 Sparrow

What launcher used on the F/A-18 can carry two AIM-9s or one AIM-7?
LAU-115 configured with two LAU-127s

The LAU-116/A missile launcher used on the F/A18 provides suspension for what missile?

AIM-7 Sparrow

On the F/A-18 which of the following launchers - LAU-117/A, LAU-116/A, LAU-93/A or LAU-92/A is used to suspend and launch a Sparrow missile?

LAU-116A

On the LAU-116/A, the AIM-120 missile umbilical connection point in what location?

Aft of the forward snubber

When weapons are loaded on an aircraft that is on deck, when, if ever, should you activate the master arm?

Never

What distance is the AIM-7 Sparrow held, in inches, from the LAU-115 to connect the motor fire connector?
3 inches - Raise missile to within 3 inches of launcher and connect and LOCK missile motor fire connector to missile

What is the I-Level maintenance publication for the LAU-116?

AW-394AC-750-010
The LAU-93 is used to carry and ejector launch what missile?
AIM-54 Phoenix
How many ejectors are on the LAU-93/A missile launcher?

Two (2)

What CAD is used in the LAU-93 missile launcher ejector assemblies?

MK-107

During an emergency situation, do both the LAU-77 launcher and the missile jettison from the Aero 7A ejector rack?

Yes

What adapter is used to adapt the LAU-7 missile launcher to the parent rack of an A-6 providing missile capability?

ADU-299 = LAU-7

What is the only test that can be performed on an all up round missile?

Missile on Aircraft Test (MOAT)

Forwarding firing ordnance is always loaded where?

Authorized loading areas facing uninhabited areas

What guided missile launcher was developed specifically for the AGM-114 Hellfire missile and provides the electronic and mechanical interface between the missile and helicopter?


M272 (Marines - Analog)


M299 (Navy - Digital)


What missile launcher suspends and launches the AGM-114 Hellfire missile?

M299

A single M299 can carry up to how many Hellfire missiles?

Four