User Guide

7: SPECIFICATIONS
7.13
WEAPONRY
AIM-92 Stinger
PUBLICATION
Jane’s Air Launched Weapons
1995-96
SECTION
Air-To-Air Missiles
TITLE
AIM-92 Stinger
TYPE
Short range IR air-to-air missile
COMPANIES
Hughes Missile Systems, (prime contractor) Raytheon, Bedford, Massachusetts
(second source)
DEVELOPMENT
The Air-To-Air Stinger (ATAS) programme provides a sensitive lightweight IR mis-
sile for use at short range against low flying aircraft and helicopter targets. Stinger
improvements include Stinger Post and Stinger RMP, the former incorporating a
dual colour IR and UV seeker for decoy discrimination and the latter a reprogram-
mable microprocessor. Hughes developed a dual mode seeker for Stinger, adding
a passive radar seeker to the existing IR/UV seeker, in a version known as Air
Defence Suppression Missile (ADSM).
DESCRIPTION
The ATAS system consists of the FIM-92 Stinger missile, a launcher with launcher
electronics, launcher adaptor, coolant reservoir, interface electronics unit and the
fire control and aiming system. The most common helicopter launcher in use is the
two missile, lightweight, stackable, quick reload launcher. The FIM-92 Stinger mis-
sile is a short-range infra-red homing missile powered by a solid propellant motor
and armed with a fragmentation warhead. For the current ATAS system, the early
Stinger guidance seekers are believed to have all been replaced by the later
Stinger Passive Optical Seeker Technology (POST) and Reprogrammable
MicroProcessor (RMP) seekers.
SPECIFICATIONS
Length 1.52m
Body diameter 70mm
Wingspan 0.14m
Launch weight 16kg
Warhead 3kg HE blast fragmentation fuze
Impact Guidance IR
Propulsion Solid propellant
Range 3km