Despite its superior range AIM -120 is considerably smaller and almost 30% lighter than its predecessor, allowing each fighter can carry more missiles and facilitating its handling by ground personnel . Entered service in the USAF in 1991 and had his baptism of fire the following year, when some F-15 shot down two Iraq jets that violated the security zone established by UN During Gulf War.
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