IslamabadPakistan fired its first homegrown air-to-air missile from a JF-17.
It joins a small group of nations that build their own air-to-air missiles.
The footage shows the infrared-guided Fa’az-IIR, not the radar-guided Fa’az-RF.
The state-owned maker advertises ranges above 100 kilometres, specifications that vary with launch altitude and speed.
The radar-guided Fa’az-RF has yet to appear in a launch video.
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- The War Zone
- clarifies the filmed missile is the imaging-IR Fa'az-IIR rather than the radar-guided Fa'az-RF variant
Sources: The War Zone