Developed at a turning point in air-to-air combat, the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile was the world’s first infrared-guided — or heat-seeking — missile, forever changing not only the dynamics of dog fighting, but the ways in which combat aircraft are designed, built, and employed in war. But most surprising of all is that this game-changing missile wasn’t developed with backing from the U.S. military… but rather, in spite of it.

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