European missile-makers MBDA have demonstrated a guided missile hitting a tank beyond the operator’s range of vision with target data from a small drone for the first time. This will open up new ...

Being a Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile means it can hit targets beyond a fighter pilot can see. The test launch was carried out on Wednesday off the coast of Chandipur in Odisha.

The best armament is arguably the METEOR beyond-visual-range missile. The METEOR has a range of 62 miles, allowing the Gripen to have a first-strike advantage against the enemy.

A new BVRAAM (Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile) was successfully test-fired from an Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 MKI. On May 4, an Indian Air Force ...

Beyond Visual Range (BVR) is the term for a fighter jet's ability to detect, track, and engage enemy targets outside of the pilot's visual line of sight. The concept goes hand-in-hand with BVRAAMs ...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully conducted a pre-induction trial of the indigenously designed and developed Astra beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) on September 26 ...

The AIM-120 AMRAAM is an all-weather, radar-homing guided air-to-air missile. The munition has dual capability and can strike targets within visual range and beyond visual range. Another ...

Saab has performed a successful first test firing of MBDA’s Meteor beyond visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) from its Gripen E fighter. Recently conducted at the Vidsel test range in ...

Credit: wikimedia commons/Rinju 9 The Indian Air Force test launched a new air-to-air beyond visual range missile from a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) last week, according to a May 12 Indian ...

Beyond-visual-range (BVR) fighting did not emerge as a significant aspect of aerial warfare until the 1950s, but it has become increasingly important as detection technology has advanced.

Beyond-visual-range missiles, coupled with long-range active electronically scanned array radar, such as the Raytheon APG-82(V)1, are seen as a way to keep fourth-generation combat aircraft relevant.

BENGALURU—India’s first indigenously-developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas has successfully test-fired an air-to-air beyond visual range missile, moving closer to securing final approval ...