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The Kh-101 (Russian: Х-101; NATO reporting name: AS-23 "Kodiak") is a Russian subsonic air-launched cruise missile. Designed in the 1990s, it underwent testing in the 2000s and entered service in the 2010s, seeing use in the Syrian Civil War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine .
Video showing Russian Tu-95MS launching Kh-101 cruise missiles in September 2017 at targets in northern Syria. Russian news agency TASS reported on 17 November 2016 that modernized Tu-95MS armed with Kh-555 and Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles had launched airstrikes against targets described as terrorist in Syria. [26] [27]
In the Syria airspace, the strategic bombers fired Kh-101 cruise missiles at the most important ISIS and Jabhat al Nusra objects located in the provinces of Deir_ez_Zor and Idlib. The unexpected strikes eliminated terrorists’ command posts, hardware and manpower concentration areas as well as ammunition depots.
Ukraine’s Security Service said it found wreckage from a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile at the site and opened proceedings on war crime charges. The Kh-101 is an air-launched missile that flies ...
Moscow’s inventories of land-attack missiles like the air-launched Kh-101, sea-launched 3M-14 Kalibr and ground-launched 9M728 cruise missiles, as well as the Iskander-K short-range ballistic ...
Ukraine's Air Force said on its Telegram account that it destroyed six Kh-101 cruise missiles using anti-aircraft combat. The Russian attack hit critical infrastructure in the central-eastern city ...
Cruise missiles — guided missiles which maintain a flight path similar to that of an airplane, ... (missile family) Kh-55; Kh-59; Kh-69; Kh-101; L. List of cruise ...
[68] [69] [70] Russian Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers launched Kh-101 and Kh-555 missiles from the Caspian and the Rostov Oblast regions. 3M-54 Kalibr missiles were launched from the Black Sea. [68] On 17 November Russia launched a series of missile strikes targeting Ukrainian gas production facilities and the PA Pivdenmash missile plant.