英国航宇公司动力部在法恩伯勒展览会上透露了它根据美国一欧洲计划而研制的新型先进近距空空导弹已完成首次发射试验的消息。这次发射试验是在1980年8月18日由一架猎人式飞机在英国的阿卑波斯试验中心进行的。英国航宇公司动力部在展览会上展出的导弹是一个只安装有固定尾翼的无弹翼导弹,该导弹装有萨美菲尔德(英国)帝国金属工业公司的固体燃料火箭发动机和斯佩里陀螺仪公司(英国)研制的推力矢量控制 British Aerospace company Power Department revealed at the Farnborough Show that it has completed its first launch test on the basis of a new advanced short range aero-missile developed under the U.S.-European One Plan. The launching test was conducted on August 18, 1980 by a hunter-type aircraft at the Abercrombie Test Center in the United Kingdom. British Aerospace Department of Power presented at the show’s missile is a missile-mounted missile-mounted missiles with fixed tail only, the missile is equipped with solid fuel rocket engines of the Royalmetal Corporation of the United States (United States) and Sperry Thrust vector control developed by Gyroscope (UK)