Sedjil (air-to-air missile)

Sedjil (Persian: سجیل) is an Iranian semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile.

[1][6][7] It is made by the Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force and is actually a modified version of the surface-to-air MIM-23 HAWK.

Experts in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force also presented a related plan to convert the HAWK missiles.

This plan was presented for the first time on 12 August 1986 with the name of "Project-Sedjil" by Ata'Allah-Bazargan (a high-ranking military pilot) and Fereidun Ali Mazandarani.

[13] According to Iranian military documents and the book "Battle in the Sky" written by Brigadier General Fazllolah Javidnia, a MiG-29A was shot down by an F-14A using this missile in 1988.

F-14 Tomcat , which can carry a Sedjil-missile