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Old 15th Jan 2011, 17:13
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Effectiveness of Firestreak and Red Top missiles?

I'm currently researching the aforementioned weapons in respect of their employment (historically - the missiles were withdrawn from use over 20 years ago) on RAF and RN aircraft (and technically Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti Lightnings).

I have some good performance stats on the Firestreak but little on Redtop, these would include range parameters by altitude, angle off limits, sun dead zones, manuever limitations, launch aircraft acceleration limits with single or mutli missile carriage, launch success rates etc etc.

I'm happy to post what I have so far, but would really appreciate if anyone with technical knowledge of these weapons has any of the above information.

Many thanks.
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