Some desert reptiles

Usage examples of sidewinders.

The four AIM-9L all-aspect Sidewinders slung from his wings, though, those were something else again.

At five hundred pounds, Sparrows were a lot heavier than the Sidewinders, and the Tomcat picked up a weight bonus each time it loosed one.

And like most Tomcat pilots, Tombstone did not fully trust the cranky Sparrows and wanted to hold his more reliable Sidewinders in reserve.

The F-14s were swinging around behind the MiGs, locking on with heat-seeker AIM-9L Sidewinders, engaging in earnest now that the Koreans had upped the ante.

Each Hornet carried only two Sidewinders in wingtip pylons, but those, together with their M61 20-mm cannon, would be more than enough to even the odds against the outnumbered American aircraft.

He'd forgotten his combat load included only two Sidewinders, and both were gone now.

He had two Sidewinders still hanging from his wings, but no way to lock on and fire them.

Red-eyes were larger, sidewinders were faster—at least, that was the theory.

It was hoped the red-eyes and sidewinders would be attracted to their heat.

Red-eyes and sidewinders burst like coveys of incandescent birds from beneath the wings of the buzz bombs, trailing red or blue or green fire, accelerated at a frightening rate, screaming in bloodthirsty joy as they suicidally dived into the bonfire wagons or chased skyrockets or, all too often, were not fooled and raced along a few meters above the ground to spread liquid fire over the pock-marked landscape.

He loosed a few sidewinders, managed to score one hit on an angel in flight.

Flights of sidewinders came streaking out of the west before the squadron was even in sight.

Red-eyes and sidewinders hung in clusters, squirming eagerly in the high wind.

Blue wands were crewmen checking the control surfaces of the Tomcat, while ordnance specialists with red wands prepped the air-to-air missiles, radar-guided Sparrows and heat-seeking Sidewinders hanging suspended from their launch rails.

Each aircraft in Viper squadron carried four of the deadly missiles plus two Sidewinders for close-in attacks.