The AIM-9 air-to-air missile is the first air-to-air missile designed with infrared as a guide, equipped with a high-explosive warhead and an active infrared guidance system, with more than 10 improved versions. AIM-9 air-to-air missile developed by the United States Rathien Company, successful prototype test launch in 1953, began to be equipped in July 1956, the use of units throughout the United States four major services, the number of exports and the use of a large number of countries, is one of the world's largest production of air-to-air missiles, it is also one of the few missiles widely used in actual combat, participated in the Vietnam War, the 1982 Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War