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Old 19th Jul 2007, 13:41
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ORAC
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That'll be Aster then. Just have to hope they don't have a decent ASM with a stand-off range of more than 120km. Ohh, wait... I hope they'll carry enough to ripple fire them. APA NOTAM:

Have a look at the big piece of metal between the engine pods in the Su-33 picture above. This is a Raduga Kh-41 Moskit [Ed: SS-N-22 Sunburn] which is a 4,500 kilogram mass supersonic rocket-ramjet missile, which skims the waves at 2.2 Mach supersonic velocity. Imagine a missile seven times the size of the French Exocet, which destroyed so many British ships in the Falklands/Malvinas war, travelling at three times the speed of the French missile. In front of the Su-33 in this picture is an NPO Mashinostroyenia Kh-61 Yakhont [Ed: SS-N-26], which is a 2,500 kg mass supersonic missile which achieved Mach 2-2.5.

Kh-41: Range 250Km.

Kh-61: Range 300Km.
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