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  1. YJ-12

    It is marketed as "the world's best anti-ship missile" that it is supersonic throughout its flight, can be launched from air, land, and naval platforms, can disable a 5,000-tonne warship, and be used in a land attack role. Assuming physical characteristics similar to the YJ-12, the missile is likely 7 m (23 ft) long and 0.6 m (2.0 ft) diameter ...

  2. P-800 Oniks

    The P-800 Oniks (Russian: П-800 Оникс; English: Onyx), marketed in export as the Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby), is a Soviet / Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr.Its GRAU designation is 3M55, the air launched Kh-61 variant was planned but never built. The missile has the NATO codename SS-N-26 ...

  3. Anti-ship missile

    BrahMos, a supersonic cruise missile, compatible of being launched from multiple platforms. [1] An anti-ship missile ( AShM) [citation needed] is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming variety, and many use a combination of inertial guidance and active radar homing.

  4. Hsiung Feng III

    The Hsiung Feng III is a supersonic antiship cruise missile. It is Taiwan's first supersonic missile, and has an operational range between 120-150 km. Skip to the content ... Anthony Atler, Todd Nichols, and Lloyd Thrall, "Employing Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles in the Western Pacific," Rand Corporation (Arroyo Center), 2013, 15, https ...

  5. BrahMos: Everything you need to know about the cruise missile system

    BrahMos is a modification of Sovietera anti-ship missiles [Oniks, Yakont] developed by the Reutov Design Bureau in the late 1980s. The name derived from India's Brahmaputra and Russia's Moskva rivers. The first test launch was conducted on June 12, 2001, at the Chandipur range in Odisha, India, and subsequently, the missiles began ...

  6. YJ-12

    The YJ-12 is an air-launched, anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) that China deploys on its H-6K medium-range strategic bombers. The YJ-12 has a range of 400 km, can reach speeds of up to Mach 3, and is capable of performing air-borne evasive maneuvers before hitting its target. [1] China began developing the YJ-12 during the 1990s, and began ...

  7. Maritime missiles: the anti-shipping forecast

    China, for instance, fields subsonic and supersonic anti-ship missiles, as well as anti-ship ballistic missiles. Russia also fields subsonic and supersonic weapons in this class, although it has tended to favour higher speed weapons. Moscow is close to introducing a hypersonic cruise missile into service in the anti-ship role, the 3M22 Zircon.

  8. PDF China's New YJ-18 Antiship Cruise Missile: Capabilities and

    Speed: The YJ-18 has a subsonic cruise speed, reportedly about 600 miles per hour (mph), or Mach 0.8.2 Media reports suggest that when the missile is about 20 nautical miles (nm) from its target, the warhead accelerates to supersonic speed, reportedly up to Mach 3.0.3 The more fuel-efficient subsonic stage of the

  9. South Korea Unveils New Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile

    The media evaluated this as a possible "aircraft carrier killer" or anti-ship missile, giving South Korea a security advantage. Considering that North Korean cruise missiles that were launched a few days earlier than the South reportedly showed the speed of Mach 0.58, proving that Seoul's new cruise missiles are two times faster at least.

  10. BrahMos

    The BrahMos (PJ-10) is a short-range, ramjet powered, single warhead, supersonic anti-ship/land attack cruise missile developed and manufactured by India and Russia. BrahMos Development The BrahMos, which derives its name from the Brahmaputra and Moscow rivers in India and Russia, is based on the earlier Russian design for the SS-N-26 (3M55 Oniks/Yakhont/Bastion) cruise missile. In...

  11. Future Cruise/Anti-Ship missile project moves forward

    The ' Future Cruise / Anti - Ship Weapon' project, originally believed to be producing one missile able to strike ships and land targets, now appears to have become two distinct missiles. One is a supersonic anti-ship missile and the other is a subsonic cruise missile. Le Délégué général pour l'armement Joël Barre, le directeur ...

  12. Russia fires supersonic missile at mock target in Sea of Japan

    The P-270 Moskit missile, which has the NATO reporting name or SS-N-22 Sunburn, is a medium-range supersonic cruise missile of Soviet origin, capable of destroying a ship within a range of up to ...

  13. CX-1 Missile Systems

    The CX-1 is a supersonic anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) that can travel up to Mach 2.8-3 at an altitude of 17,000 m (56,000 ft). It travels along a low-high-low flight profile and has a range of 40-280 km (25-174 mi; 22-151 nmi) using a two-stage booster, descending to 10 meters above the water when 10 km (6.2 mi; 5.4 nmi) from the target.

  14. P-800 Oniks (SS-N-26 Strobile)

    The P-800 Oniks anti-ship cruise missile is a supersonic cruise missile with variants that can be deployed from land or air. Its development began in 1983, and it became operational in 2002. The missile launches from a vertical position and uses angular thrusters located near the nose to reposition itself horizontally and begin its flight path ...

  15. BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile

    A model of the BrahMos missile autonomous ground launcher shown at MAKS-2009. BrahMos is the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile, developed by BrahMos Aerospace. BrahMos supersonic cruise missile displayed at IMDS-2007. The Indian Air Force's SU-30 MKI aircraft will be fitted with the BrahMos air launch missile variant by 2014.

  16. P-500 Bazalt (SS-N-12 Sandbox)

    The P-500 Bazalt is a Soviet-era supersonic anti-ship cruise missile that remains active in the Russian missile arsenal today. When armed with high explosives, the Bazalt can have a conventional yield of 1000 kilograms. If armed with a nuclear warhead, the cruise missile maintains a 350 kiloton nuclear yield. It uses an inertial guidance system ...

  17. Philippines Confirms Purchase of BrahMos Supersonic Missile System

    Indonesia has operated the ship-based Russian-origin Yakhont supersonic anti-ship cruise missile since 2011; in 2015, Vietnam's army also purchased from Russia two land-based Bastion-P mobile ...

  18. South Korea's New Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile will have multi-role

    Multi-mode seeker. This ducted-ramjet supersonic Air-to-Ship Guided Missile-II, will be slightly smaller in size than originally expected: A Diameter of 400mm to 350mm, a weight of 940kg and a length of about 6 meters.. Meanwhile, South Korea's ADD (Agency for Defense Development) is developing a long range air-to-air missile which will also use Ducked-Ramjet engine.

  19. BrahMos

    The BrahMos (also designated as PJ-10) is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, fighter aircraft or TEL. It is a joint venture between the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroyeniya, who together have formed BrahMos Aerospace. The missile is based on P-800 Oniks.

  20. supersonic target drone

    The supersonic target drone is designed to help Navy ship crews learn to defend themselves against modern anti-ship missiles like the French Exocet and the Russian-made SS-N-22 Sunburn and SS-NX ...

  21. Rolling Airframe Missiles To Arm Arleigh Burke Destroyer Fleet

    T he U.S. Navy plans to add RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) to the arsenals of its Arleigh Burke class destroyers to boost their defenses against incoming cruise missiles, drones, and ...

  22. Hsiung Feng III

    Anti-ship missile Surface to surface missile: Place of origin ... 雄風三型; pinyin: Xióngfēng sān xíng, "Brave Wind III") is a medium range supersonic missile with capabilities to destroy both land based targets and naval targets ... The development and flight test program for the Yun Feng supersonic cruise missile was hidden within the ...

  23. The US Air Force is bringing a 40-year-old supersonic bomber out of

    The four-engine, supersonic, swing-wing B-1 - crewed by four people and capable of carrying 37 tons of bombs and missiles over intercontinental distances - is the Air Force's main anti-ship ...

  24. Russia-Ukraine war latest: Major Russian attack completely destroys

    Ukraine claims the attack involved at least 82 drones and missiles, launched from nine Russian strategic bombers. The thermal power plant in Kyiv was destroyed in the attack, which the Russian ...

  25. Cruise missile

    The main purpose of Soviet-based cruise missiles was to have defense and offensive mechanisms against enemy ships; in other words, most of the Soviet cruise missiles were anti-ship missiles. In the 1980s the Soviet Union had developed an arsenal of cruise missiles nearing 600 platforms which consisted of land, sea, and air delivery systems.

  26. Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface

    The Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface (HALO) is a hypersonic air-launched anti-ship missile being developed for the United States Navy. It is designed to provide greater anti-surface warfare capability than the AGM-158C LRASM and is expected to be compatible with F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The initial operational capability is expected in 2028. The program is also called the ...