AIM-9 Sidewinder Heat Seeker is THIS Sensitive

The AIM-9 Sidewinder is one of the world’s premier heat-seeking air-to-air missiles.

In the early 1960s, the company that manufactured the AIM-9 Sidewinder wanted to see how sensitive the seeker really was.

This is what they recorded. The newest version has an infrared imaging seeker that's vastly more sensitive than what you’re seeing here.

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