Dornier Viper

The Dornier Viper was a West German/Norwegian air-to-air missile project, intended to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder in Luftwaffe service from 1975/76.

The Viper was developed by Bodenseewerk and Dornier Systems, using an infrared seeker and a new solid-fuel rocket motor (by Kongsberg Vapenfabrik) intended to have twice the burn time of Sidewinder.^[1]

In 1974, Viper was abandoned in favor of evaluating an American missile.^[2]

• Length: 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
• Diameter: 15 cm (5.9 in)
• Weight: 80 kg (180 lb)

References

Notes

1. "Bodenseewerk/Dornier Viper", Flight International: 871, 7 June 19743 Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. "Dornier Viper abandoned", Flight International: 847, 27 June 1974

Bibliography

• Aviation Week & Space Technology, 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=XHEgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Dornier+Viper%22&dq=%22Dornier+Viper%22&hl=en&ei=OGbbTPSpMcK78galu4TdCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA Missing or empty |title= (help).
• Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. (1978), "Viper, Dornier", The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare, London: Phoebus, 24, p. 2578.