Yakhont/Oniks missile | |
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Type | Cruise missile Air-launched cruise missile Submarine-launched cruise missile Anti-ship missile Surface-to-surface missile Land-attack missile |
Place of origin | Soviet Union / Russia |
Service history | |
In service | 2002–present[1] |
Used by | See Operators |
Wars | Syrian Civil War 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[2][unreliable source?] |
Production history | |
Manufacturer | NPO Mashinostroyeniya |
Unit cost | $1.25 million[3] |
Produced | 1987–present |
Specifications | |
Mass | 3,000 kg (6,614 lb) |
Length | 8.9 m (29.2 ft) |
Diameter | 0.7 m (2.3 ft) |
Wingspan | 1.7 m (5.6 ft) |
Warhead | national ver. 300 kg semi-armour piercing HE, thermonuclear; for export 200 kg semi-armour piercing HE[4] |
Detonation mechanism | delay fuze |
Engine | Ramjet 4 tons of thrust |
Propellant | jet fuel |
Operational range | 600 km (370 mi; 320 nmi) (Oniks version for Russia) 800 km (500 mi; 430 nmi) (Oniks-M version for Russia) 120 to 300 km (75 to 186 mi; 65 to 162 nmi) depending on altitude (Yakhont export version) |
Flight ceiling | 14,000 m (46000 ft) |
Flight altitude | 10 meters (32 ft) or higher |
Maximum speed | Mach 2.9 ( 3180 km/h / 1998 mph / 884 m/s ) |
Guidance system | midcourse inertial guidance, active radar homing-passive radar seeker head |
Accuracy | 1.5 m[5] |
Launch platform | coastal installations, naval ships, Fixed-wing aircraft |
The P-800 Oniks (Russian: П-800 Оникс; English: Onyx), marketed in export as the Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby), is a Soviet/Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr. Its GRAU designation is 3M55, the air launched Kh-61 variant was planned but never built. The missile has the NATO codename SS-N-26 "Strobile". Development commenced in 1983,[6] and in the 1990s the anti-ship missile was tested on the Project 1234.7 ship. In 2002 the missile passed the whole range of trials and was commissioned.[7] It is reportedly a replacement for the P-270 Moskit, and possibly also of the P-700 Granit.