{"id":137168,"date":"2025-11-17T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:04:12","slug":"israel-secretly-upgraded-aim-9m-to-hunt-shaheds-better-but-wont-share-it-even-with-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/137168\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Secretly Upgraded AIM-9M to Hunt Shaheds Better But Won’t Share It Even With U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has modified the seeker head of the AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missile, thanks to which this weapon can now fight long-range strike drones like the Shahed-family with better effectiveness the decision to upgrade this missile was made based on the results of iran’s attack on Israel in April 2024.<\/p>\n

This is stated in a report by the U.S. Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), whose recent report was analyzed by TWZ<\/a>. It states that the modified AIM-9M did not cope very well with the task of intercepting drones, unlike the AIM-9X version.<\/p>\n

Read more: \u200bUkraine Strikes russian Oil Refinery and Drone Base of the Rubicon Unit in Samara and Donetsk Regions<\/a>\"AIM-9M\"\/AIM-9M \/ Open-source photo<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Israeli Air Force decided to make some changes to the AIM-9M missile’s seeker head, and this positively affected its effectiveness, the FPRI report states.<\/p>\n

Israel keeps all details of this modification secret even the fact of whether it was hardware or software, or both at once, remains secret: no details about the AIM-9M upgrade project are disclosed.<\/p>\n

Here one could say that such an improvement should be relevant for those AIM-9Ms in service with Ukraine’s Defense Forces considering that these missiles are used primarily against long-range strike drones.<\/p>\n

However, given that we’re talking about Israel, such an option looks very, very unlikely.<\/p>\n

Especially considering the fact that Israel has not yet shared its developments with any of their allies and this includes even the United States.<\/p>\n

Defense Express<\/a> previously reported that Ukraine may have secretly received a BRAWLR air defense truck for R-27, APKWS, AIM-9M missiles and more.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more: \u200bGermany to Receive the SM-6 and SM-2 Missiles Under $3.5B U.S. Deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has modified the seeker head of the AIM-9M Sidewinder air-to-air missile, thanks to which this weapon can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-137168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}