10Kh | |
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Type | cruise missile |
Place of origin | USSR |
Production history | |
Designer | Vladimir N. Chelomey |
Designed | 1945 |
Manufacturer | OKB-52 |
Produced | 1945 |
No. built | 300 (10Kh) |
Variants | 10Kh Izdeliye 30 10KhN 14Kh 14KhK1 15Kh 16Kh 17Kh 18Kh Gliding bomb |
Specifications | |
Engine | Chelomey D-3 ca 3.924 kN (882 lbf) thrust |
Propellant | Gasoline |
Operational range | 260 - 300 km |
Boost time | Solid fuel rockets (ramp launching) |
Launch platform | Petlyakov Pe-8 Tupolev Tu-2LL |
10Kh was the designation for the initial series of Soviet Union pulse jet engine powered air-launched cruise missiles, reverse engineered from the Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) flying bomb, developed in the 1950s by OKB-52 under the leadership of Vladimir Nikolaevič Čelomej (Chelomey) and cancelled in the same decade.[1][2]