EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Raytheon, an RTX business, and the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command have successfully executed the longest known AMRAAM air-to-air missile shot by a fifth-generation fighter during a series of tests in Eglin Air Force Base airspace.
The tests, conducted in the fall of 2024 on an F-22, demonstrated AMRAAM's extended time of flight capability, proving the munition can significantly increase the lethality of fifth-generation aircrafts. This is the result of the U.S. Air Force's form, fit, function refresh (F3R) development effort, which continues to enhance AMRAAM's performance, and Raytheon's investment in the research, development and production of AMRAAM.
Sam Deneke, president of Air & Space Defense Systems at Raytheon, said, "Achieving air superiority in the future, highly contested battlespace depends on the precision and lethality of air-to-air missiles. AMRAAM is already known as the gold standard for the air dominance arena, and these tests prove it will continue to play a critical role for the U.S. and its allies for decades to come."
For more than 30 years, AMRAAM has been a trusted and combat-proven air dominance weapon for air-to-air and surface-to-air missions for the United States' Air Force, Navy and allies. It is integrated on 14 platforms in 43 countries, has completed more than 6,000 successful live fires, and has had near-perfect success in active conflicts.
