South Africa and Brazil Enter Joint Development for A-Darter Missile

South Africa has been working on this missile for some time, and the jount development agreement should bring some more resources to the project.


It's clearly been delayed a bit, as the SAAF has purchased German IRIS-T missiles as an interim fit.

The A-Darter is a short range IR guided air to air missile, and appears rather similar to the British ASRAAM, with no forward wings, though it has thrust vector vanes in the exhaust, implying a bit more agility off the rail:

This would also imply a dual thrust motor, with low thrust in the first second or so, so as to allow for optimum operation of the thrust vector paddles.