Description:
The Kh-55 is a long range, cruise missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead and to be launched by a strategic bomber. It features an inertial navigation system combined with a terrain correction system which compares the terrain with stored digital maps in the missile's computer memory. The Kh-55 is the Soviet counterpart to American AGM-86 ALCM cruise missile.
The Kh-55 cruise missiles have been deployed with the Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers beginning in 1984. The improved Kh-55MS, AS-15B Kent reported NATO-codename, version was fielded in the 1990s. Russia will convert some Kh-55 nuclear capable missiles to Kh-555 conventionally armed cruise missile similarly to American AGM-86.
Specifications Dimensions: Diameter 520 mm, Length 8.1 m, Width 3.1 m
Weights: Max Weight 1,700 kg (3,748 lb)
Performance: CEP 150 m (492 ft), Max Range 3,000 km (1,620 nm), Top Speed 256 mps (Mach 0.77)
Yield: 200 kiloton
Kh-55 - Contracts, Orders & Sales
Operators
Russia / 600
Notes (*) lead contractor
IOC: Initial Operating Capability
FOC: Full Operating Capability
CEP: Circular Error Probable
Comm: Commissioning Date
Meters (m) Kilometers (km) Nautic Miles (nm) Inch (in) Yard (yd) Foot (ft) Millimeter (mm)
Pound (lb) Kilogram (kg) kN (KiloNewton) Ton (t)
Meters per Second (mps) Kilometers per Hour (kph) Knot (kt) Miles per Hour (mph)
Liter (l) Galon (gl)
Year (yr) Minutes (min) Second (sec)
Shaft-Horse-Power (shp)
Russia / 600