A-Darter [SEP] manufacturer
A-Darter
The V3E A-Darter (Agile Darter) is a modern short-range infrared homing ("heat seeking") air-to-air missile, featuring countermeasures resistance with a 180-degree look angle and 120-degrees per second track rate, developed by South Africa's Denel Dynamics (formerly Kentron) and Brazil's Mectron (now SIATT), Avibras and Opto Eletrônica. It will equip the South African Air Force's Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D and BAe Hawk 120, and the Brazilian Air Force
primitive darter. However, it is also placed in its own family (Protoplotidae) and might be a basal member of the Sulae and/or close to the common ancestor of cormorants and darters.
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- Answers.com [2009]: darter. "In: Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia" (6th ed.). Columbia University Press. Retrieved 2009-Sep-09.
- Christidis, Les & Boles, Walter E. (2008): "Systematics