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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]
The facilities represent the only remaining intact components of a nuclear missile field that once consisted of 150 Minuteman II missiles, 15 launch-control centers, and covered over 13,500 square miles (35,000 km 2) of southwestern South Dakota. [4] The silo, known as launch facility Delta Nine (D-09) was constructed in 1963.
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 ...
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 ...
Uses AT-2 (AT-2UM) torpedo (E53-72), which has either 100 kg HE warhead or possibly a 5 kt nuclear warhead. 85RU/URPK-5 Rastrub, KT-100U launcher. Entered service 1975. Carries UGMT-1 (AT-3 Orlan) anti- sub and anti-ship torpedo and is in addition anti-shipping missile with a warhead of 185 kg. 85RUS/URPK-5 Nuclear tipped version of the missile.
The P-270 Moskit (Russian: П-270 «Москит»; English: Mosquito) is a Soviet supersonic ramjet powered anti-ship cruise missile.Its GRAU designation is 3M80, air launched variant is the Kh-41 and its NATO reporting name is SS-N-22 Sunburn (one of two missiles with that designation).
Museum website Entrance is masked as an old building The Cold War Museum (Moscow) or Bunker GO-42 , also known as "facility-02" (1947), CHZ-293 (1951), CHZ-572 (1953), and GO-42 (from 1980), and now Exhibition Complex Bunker-42 , [ 1 ] is a once-secret military complex, bunker, communication center in Moscow, Russia, near the underground Moscow ...
The R-5 Pobeda [2] (Побе́да, "Victory") was a medium range ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.The upgraded R-5M version, the first Soviet missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-3 Shyster and carried the GRAU index 8K51.