Originally Posted by
hotshot
I always thought missiles were kind of small, like you could actually carry them out the door, but I went to the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi a few years ago, and I was, well, suprised. Apparently the Phoenix missile is like 13 feet long. I always thought it was 5-6 feet.
The AMRAAM is about 350 lbs, and I think Phoenix was about 1000 lbs. So yeah, not so tiny or light.