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 ====== Python 5 ====== ====== Python 5 ======
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 +>The Python-5 is currently the most capable visual range air-to-air missile in Israel's inventory. As a short range air-to-air missiles, it is capable of "lock-on after launch" (LOAL), and has full-sphere/all-direction (including rearward) attack ability. 
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 +>The missile features an advanced seeker which includes an electro-optical and imaging infrared homing seeker which scans the target area for hostile aircraft, then locks-on for terminal chase, and a complex design utilizing a total of eighteen aerodynamic surfaces. The Python-5 was first used in combat during the 2006 Lebanon War, when it was used by F-16 Fighting Falcons to destroy two Iranian-made Ababil UAVs used by the Hezbollah. On 13 May 2021, an Israeli F-16 shot down a Hamas operated Shahed suicide drone with a Python-5 air-to-air missile.
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 +===== Class Names =====
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 +^ WPN Class | rksla3_wpn_python5 |   |^ Mass ^
 +^ Mag Class name | rksla3_mag_python5_lau127x1 ^ Hardpoint | RKSLA3_PYTHON5_LAU127 | 144.46 |
 +| ::: | rksla3_mag_python5_lau138x1 | ::: | RKSLA3_PYTHON5_LAU138 | 145.8 |
 +| ::: | rksla3_mag_python5_directx1 | ::: | RKSLA3_PYTHON5_DIRECT | 105 |
 +^ Ammo Class | rksla3_ammo_python5 ||| 105 |
 +^ submunitionAmmo | NONE ||| N/A |
  
  
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