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Kh-22. The Kh-22 "Storm" (Russian: Х-22 "Буря", NATO reporting name AS-4 'Kitchen') is a large, long-range anti-ship cruise missile developed by MKB Raduga in the Soviet Union. It was designed for use against aircraft carriers and carrier battle groups, with either a conventional or nuclear warhead. Kh-32 is an updated conventional variant ...
Transport. TEL. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase (descent or reentry). [3][4] The THAAD interceptor carries no warhead ...
Kh-47M2 Kinzhal. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Russian: Х-47М2 Кинжал, lit. ' Dagger '; NATO reporting name: AS-24 Killjoy) is a Russian hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile. [4][5] It has an estimated range of 460–480 km (290–300 mi) [6] and a reported top speed of Mach 10. [3][6] It can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads [7 ...
Kh-32. Tu-22M3 with a Kh-22 missile. Kh-32 shares its hull with its predecessor. Kh-32 (Russian: Х-32) is a Russian supersonic air-launched cruise missile with a range of 600–1000 km developed by the MKB Raduga from the Kh-22. The missile was accepted to service in 2016 as armament for the Tu-22M3M bombers.
MIM-23 Hawk. The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing All the Way Killer") [2] is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile. It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules, trading off range and altitude capability for a much smaller size and weight. Its low-level performance was greatly improved over Nike ...
[22] [23] This system is likely suitable for other long-fuselage UH-1 types. A/A49E-11; Referred to as the Defensive Armament System or DAS, this system is composed of two mounts for GAU-15/A and GAU-16/A.50 caliber machine guns or GAU-17/A 7.62×51mm Miniguns, as well as, two BRU-20/A or BRU-21/A bomb racks for current 2.75" rocket launchers.
The specific feature of the Pantsir-S1 system is the combination of a multiple-band target acquisition and tracking system in conjunction with a combined missile and gun armament creating a continuous target engagement zone from 5 m (16 ft) height and 200 m (660 ft) range up to 15 km (9.3 mi) height and 20 km (12 mi) range, even without any ...
The fifth test flight on 22 October 1998 was unsuccessful as the missile exploded after being launched; the sixth test flight two months later was successful. [17] The 104th Regiment of the Taman Missile Division, based in Saratov , introduced 10 missiles into service on 30 December 1998; another ten entered service with a second regiment in ...