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Sometimes the origins of the most successful inventions belie the life they go on to have and this was the same for the weapon that changed aerial combat, the Sidewinder AIM-9.
This is the story of the project that was killed off once by the infighting within the US Navy and kept alive by the engineers that created it until it proved itself against the competition.

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Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito
Images and Footage : US DoD, USAF, US Navy

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