GarryB Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:01 pm
Difference is factor of 1.85 so someone who knows Russian should make this statement clear of google translator crunching job
I would suggest a US based translator with a sloppy reporter who tried to correct but didn't do a great job.
The Russian military is metric.
The main problem is separating missiles from domestic and export.
The Klub family include a subsonic all the way anti ship and land attack missile with a range of about 300km (290km actually) with a payload of 400kgs
There is also the subsonic most of the way supersonic rocket propelled for the last 30-40km to penetrate the last line of defences which has a reported range of about 220km.
There is also Yakhont, which is a high speed anti ship missile and a mach 2 ballistic missile that delivers a torpedo payload up to 40km from the vessel to hunt subs that replaces the SS-N-15.
On the domestic vessels however with no limitation via the MRCT, the long range land attack missile has a range of 2,500km and is called Kalibr.
There is a related version with high supersonic (mach 2.9) terminal penetration stage, which has been reported to have a flight range of 1,500km... most of it at high level at subsonic flight speed, but terminal portion high supersonic.
The supersonic anti ship missile is Onyx with a flight range of 500-700km, and there is an anti sub missile that launches a ballistic rocket carrying a torpedo up to 50km to the target area.
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