(WIKI) Kh-35
(WIKI) Kh-35
launched from helicopters, surface ships and coastal defence batteries with the help of a rocket booster, in which
case it is known as Uran ('Uranus, SS-N-25 'Switchblade', GRAU 3M24 ) or Bal ('Ball', SSC-6 'Sennight',
GRAU 3K60). It is also nicknamed Harpoonski, because it looks like and functions very similar to the American Harpoon Anti-Ship missile. It is designed to attack
vessels up to 5000 tonnes.[2]
1 Development
Zvezda started work on the Kh-35 in 1983 by a decree
of the USSR Council of Ministers and the USSR CPSU
Central Committee to arm ships of medium tonnage.
2 Design
The Kh-35 missile is a subsonic weapon featuring a normal aerodynamic conguration with cruciform wings and
ns[2] and a semisubmerged air duct intake. The propulsion unit is a turbofan engine.[2] The missile is guided to
its target at the nal leg of the trajectory by commands
fed from the active radar homing head and the radio altimeter.[2]
Target designation data can be introduced into the missile from the launch aircraft or ship or external sources.
Flight mission data is inserted into the missile control system after input of target coordinates. An inertial system
controls the missile in ight, stabilizes it at an assigned altitude and brings it to a target location area. At a certain
target range, the homing head is switched on to search
for, lock on and track the target. The inertial control system then turns the missile toward the target and changes
its ight altitude to an extremely low one. At this altitude,
the missile continues the process of homing by the data
fed from the homing head and the inertial control system
until a hit is obtained.
The Kh-35 anti-ship missile can be employed in fair and
adverse weather conditions at sea states up to 5-6, by day
and night, under enemy re and electronic countermeasures.
Bal - coastal mobile missile complex
Operational history
OPERATORS
5 Operators
Variants
Kh-35 (3M-24) - Base naval version for Russia 5.1 Current operators
(2003). Missile range - up to 130 km, detection
range 20 km (as in all versions), length and weight
Algeria
4,4 m and 620 kg respectively (as in the land-based
version), body diameter - 0,42 m, wing span - 1,33
India
- HE penetrator, warhead weight - 145 kg (as in all
versions).[11]
Iran
Kh-35E (3M-24E) - Export version of Kh-35
Myanmar Navy
Similar weapons
Boeing Harpoon (USA) - 221 kg warhead, 93315
km range depending on platform
C-802 (China) - 165 kg warhead, 120180 km
range
Exocet (France) - 165 kg warhead, 180 km range
RBS-15 (Sweden) - 200 kg warhead, 200 km range
Sea Eagle (UK) - 230 kg warhead, 110+ km range
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