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In 2016 the Kh-32 missile was officially accepted into service. [citation needed] Russia has planned modernization of 30 Tu-22M3 aircraft into the Tu-22M3M version. [1] [2] [3] On 19 April 2024, Ukraine claimed to have shot down two Kh-22/32s for the first time during the war. [4]
By August 2016, Russia was finalizing the trials of the Kh-32 cruise missile, a derivative of the Kh-22. Designed for use by the Tu-22M3 bomber, the missile is designed to climb to 40 km (130,000 ft) to the stratosphere after launch, transition to level flight, then perform a steep dive to the target. The cruise missile version is also designed ...
Oreshnik (Russian: Орешник, lit. 'Hazel tree'), [2] is a Russian intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) characterized by its reported speed exceeding Mach 10 (12,300 km/h; 7,610 mph; 3.40 km/s), according to the Ukrainian military.
The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile started test operations in December 2017 and has been deployed since 2018. [5] On 27 December 2019, TASS reported that the first missile regiment armed with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle officially entered combat duty. [6] As of 2020, the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile was still under development.
NATO reporting name for AS series air-to-surface missiles, with Soviet designations: Note: The Soviet / Russian designation is a Cyrillic letter " Х ", which is translated as "Kh" or "H". Also, sometimes a combination ("complex") of a missile with its aircraft is marked with a letter "K" (for example, a missile Kh-22 with an aircraft is a ...
Tu-16K with a missile under each wing Tu-16 'Badger-G' with KSR-5 under port wing. The Raduga Kh-26 KSR-5 (NATO reporting name AS-6 Kingfish) was a long-range, air-launched cruise missile and anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union. It was essentially a scaled down version of the Kh-22 'Kitchen', built to be carried by the less capable ...
The missile that struck the building was a Kh-22 anti-ship missile, the same type used in an attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk on 27 June 2022. [26] Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, said that the Ukrainian army at the time of the incident had no weapons to shoot down such missiles and that during the year of full-scale war, out of 210 Kh-22 missiles ...
The following list of nuclear triads, deployed in 2024, includes all four countries known to possess them (United States, Russia, China and India). Where available, the names and number of nuclear warheads are given. The list excludes non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons and the partial nuclear triad of France and Pakistan.