A free-to-use AIM-7 Sparrow missile that you can use for your builds. Add them to your sub-assemblies and your done! Note that there may be additional connections when attempting to connect the missile to your plane, so delete them as much as you can until there's only one part that is connected: “Detacher”.

Introduction:

The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American medium range, semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile primarily used by the US and various other air forces and navies.

Developed in the late 1940s as a means to counter large airborne threats like jet bombers, it officially entered service in 1958 as the AAM-N-6 Sparrow III. During the Vietnam War, it was notoriously known for its poor combat performance due to the many failures that it had faced, particularly with the AIM-7E where pilots were getting a kill probability of less than 10%.

Many of the issues faced by the AIM-7 were addressed in the 1970s and 1980s with the introduction of the F and M variants. The Gulf War saw a rise in air-to-air kills with the AIM-7M, becoming a potent BVR weapon where it achieved 26 kills.

Weapons like the Skyflash and Aspide air-to-air missiles and the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile were based off of the AIM-7. While still in active service, since the 1990s, it is currently being phased out by the much more advanced AIM-120 AMRAAM.

Veridisian History

The missile was first procured by the Veridisian Air Force and Navy in 1964. At the time, the Veridisian military needed an effective basis weapon for BVR engagements.

Like the AIM-7E during the Vietnam War, it also gained notoriety among pilots due to poor performance. As a result, the AAM-71 Neryndral was created to counter the problematic weapon, and the Sparrow was nearly phased out.

However, in 1978, the AIM-7K, an improved and overhauled version of the AIM-7E, as well as the AIM-7F and later AIM-7M variants were introduced. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the missile saw great combat use, with many of the air-to-air kills coming from the Banondan Civil War (1976–1993) and the Tiucana Islands War (1992–1995) respectively.

It currently serves as a foundational SARH weapon alongside the R-27 and other advanced missiles like the BVR-ARH 85, WVR-IR 86, and the AAM-96 Nocadtyl.

A VerdAir Pegasus with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles conducting combat air patrol operations over the Tiucana Sea in January 1995.

A VerdAir Griffin with AIM-7 Sparrows during a training exercise in 1987.

As I said, feel free to use the missile in your builds. Anyways enjoy :)