Air Mobility Command Museum - Other Exhibits / 20 AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile
Bill Maloney
4/30/2008

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20AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile

20 AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile

Hughes AIM-4 Falcon Air to Air Heat Seeking Missile Specifications:

AIM-4 Falcon Air to Air Missiles at other aviation museums in the northeast
AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile
AIM-4 Falcon Missile at the Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association Museum in Willow Grove, PA Another AIM-4 Falcon Missile at the Vermont Militia Museum in Essex Junction, VT
  AIM-4 Falcon Air To Air Missile
  One more AIM-4 Falcon Missile at the MAPS Air Museum in North Canton, OH

Length: 6 feet 9 inches
Wingspan: 1 foot 8 inches
Diameter: 5.3 inches
Weight: 145 lbs
Max Speed: Mach 4
Range: 6 miles
Powerplant: Thiokol M46 two-stage solid fuel rocket motor 6,000lbs thrust
Guidance: Infared Heat Seeking
Warhead:
 40lb High Explosive Fragmentation - Fused at the wing's leading edges
First Flight : 1956
Cost: $386,000