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R.550 Magic, the Glossary

The R.550 Magic (backronym for Missile Auto-Guidé Interception et Combat) is a short-range air-to-air missile designed in 1965 by French company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder, and it was made backwards compatible with the Sidewinder launch hardware.^[1]

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Aegean dispute

The Aegean dispute is a set of interrelated controversies between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty and related rights in the region of the Aegean Sea.

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Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.

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AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile.

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Air-to-air missile

Python family of AAM for comparisons, Python-5 (displayed lower-front) and Shafrir-1 (upper-back) An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft (including unmanned aircraft such as cruise missiles).

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Backronym

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

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British Aerospace Sea Harrier

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft.

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Canard (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a canard is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chios

Chios (Chíos, traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the tenth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Dassault Étendard IV

The Dassault Étendard IV is a transonic carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation.

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Dassault Mirage 2000

The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine, delta wing, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation.

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Dassault Mirage 5

The Dassault Mirage 5 is a French supersonic attack aircraft/fighter-bomber designed by Dassault Aviation during the 1960s and manufactured in France and other countries.

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Dassault Mirage F1

The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation.

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Dassault Mirage III

The Dassault Mirage III is a family of single/dual-seat, single-engine, fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by French aircraft company Dassault Aviation.

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Dassault Rafale

The Dassault Rafale (literally meaning "gust of wind", or "burst of fire" in a more military sense) is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation.

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Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard

The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard (Étendard is French for "battle flag", cognate to English "standard") is a French carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed by Dassault-Breguet for service with the French Navy.

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French Air and Space Force

The French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de l'espace) is the air and space force of the French Armed Forces.

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French Navy

The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.

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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Gloster Meteor

The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War.

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Hellenic Air Force

The Hellenic Air Force (HAF;, sometimes abbreviated as ΠΑ) is the air force of Greece (Hellenic being the endonym for Greek in the Greek language).

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Imia

Imia (Ίμια) is a pair of small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, situated between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey.

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Infrared homing

Infrared homing is a passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly.

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List of missiles

Below is a list of missiles, sorted alphabetically into large categories and subcategories by name and purpose.

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Matra

Matra (an acronym for Mécanique Aviation Traction) was a major French industrial conglomerate.

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MBDA

MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles.

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MICA (missile)

The MICA is a French anti-air multi-target, all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system manufactured by MBDA France. R.550 Magic and MICA (missile) are air-to-air missiles of France and Matra.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Nord Aviation CT20

The Nord Aviation CT20 was a French turbojet-powered radio-controlled target drone introduced in 1957.

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People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola

The People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola (Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola) or FAPLA was originally the armed wing of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) but later (1975–1991) became Angola's official armed forces when the MPLA took control of the government.

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PL-7

The PL-7 is the PRC version of the French Magic R.550 air-to-air missile.

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R.530

The Matra R.530 is a French medium to short range air-to-air missile. R.550 Magic and R.530 are air-to-air missiles of France and Matra.

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Republic of China Air Force

The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; known historically as the Chinese Air Force and colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947.

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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.550_Magic

Also known as MBDA Magic II, Magic II, Magic R.550, Matra Magic, Matra Magic II, Matra Magic R.550, Matra R.550 Magic, Matra R550 Magic, R-550 Magic-1, R550 Magic.

R.550 Magic, the Glossary

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See also

Air-to-air missiles of France

Matra

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