The Forpost has every capability to become a target designator for cruise and anti-ship missiles. The size and lifting capacity of this UAV enable it to carry a powerful optronic suite. With its aid the Forpost will be able to easily ...
Cruise Missiles - Russia's National Weapon Bulava missile test: insistent mistake making? Issues of sea launched cruise missile's control Nothing changes at the White Sea Bulava fault: controversy in reasons Underwater Weapons: Problems and Capabilities ...
The 12,500-tonne cruiser, the most essential ship in Russia's Black Sea fleet, was officially commissioned in 1983 and armed with 16 anti-ship "Vulkan" cruise missiles.■
Bill Gertz (I know!)claimedthat Russia had, on September 2, conducted another test of the ground-launched cruise missile that the United States claimsviolatesthe 1987 INF Treaty. Gertz indicated that the US designation is the “SSC-X-8.” I believe this missile is designated 9M729. There ...
After the Ukrainian Strike, Only a Crater Remains of the S-400: Was the Neptune Missile Used?The R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile / Archive photo by Defense Express Read more: Completely Invisible in the Radio Spectrum: Media Showcased Ukraine's Fiber-Optic UAV (Video) TAGS russiaUkrai...
The most important part of the exercise was the launching of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles. Targets imitating a maneuver enemy ship and cruise missile were successfully shot by the crews. Project 20380 Stereguschiy-class corvette is the newest class of corvette in the Russian Navy. Those...
The most widely exported Russian an-tiship missile has been the P-15 (SS-N-2 Styx) and its derivatives but these are no longer in production. Until 1992, the Russians did not manufacture small antiship missiles comparable to the Exocet or the Harpoon. In the early 1990s, Russian missile...
The Project 855 submarines are designed to carry a large number of cruise missiles—specifically, the Oniks anti-ship and Kalibr land attack cruise missiles. Oniks, traveling at Mach 2.5, would be a real challenge for the surface-to-air missile defenses of enemy warships to shoot down. K...
“In the Black Sea operational zone, Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles hit the cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet – it received significant damage,” the statement said. “A fire broke out. Other units of the ship’s group tried to help, but a storm and a...
“Assuming the photo is not faked in some way or photo-shopped, it looks like the missile(s) hit forward, which is not unexpected,” he said. “Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles (ASCMs) tend to go for the center of the radar return, which typically is the forward section of the superstructur...