title: Dornier Viper
text: # Dornier Viper
  
  The Dornier Viper was a West German/Norwegian air-to-air missile project, intended to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder, in Luftwaffe service from 1975/76.
  
  The Viper was developed by Bodenseewerk and Dornier Systems, using an infrared seeker and a new solid-fuel rocket motor (by Kongsberg Vapenfabrik), intended to have twice the burn time of the Sidewinder.
  
  In 1974, the Viper was abandoned in favor of evaluating an American missile.
  
  * Length: 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
  * Diameter: 15 cm (5.9 in)
  * Weight: 80 kg (180 lb)
  