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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.
The Kh-69 (Cyrillic: Х-69) (NATO reporting name: AS-15 'Nice') is a Russian subsonic air-launched cruise missile. [3] It was developed from the Kh-59 missile, and has a range of at least 400 km (250 mi). It has a reduced radar signature compared to its forerunners. [1]
The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM; pronounced Ha-sehm [citation needed]) is an Australian-American scramjet-powered hypersonic air-launched cruise missile project, the successor of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and the SCIFiRE hypersonic programs.
STORY: The missile was fired from the Barents Sea and hit a target in the White Sea, it said. Video released by the ministry showed the missile being fired from a ship and blazing into the sky on ...
Cruise missiles — guided missiles which maintain a flight path similar to that of an airplane, but are without a pilot. Subcategories. This category has the ...
The following is a list of cruise missiles. It does not include the specifically anti-ship missiles, which are on a separate list. Missile Type Country Max. range
The AGM-86 ALCM is an American subsonic air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) built by Boeing and operated by the United States Air Force.This missile was developed to increase the effectiveness and survivability of the Boeing B-52G and B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers, allowing the aircraft to deliver its payload from a great distance.
North Korea has been testing what it calls "strategic cruise missiles," which some analysts have said could be tipped with nuclear warheads, during the past two years. While modernising and ...