Burya

For other uses, see Burya (disambiguation).

The Burya ("Storm" in Russian; Russian: Буря) was a supersonic, intercontinental cruise missile, developed by the Lavochkin design bureau (chief designer Naum Semyonovich Chernyakov[1]) under designation La-350 (Ла-350) from 1954 until the program cancellation in February 1960.[2]: 300  The request for proposal issued by the Soviet government in 1954,[3] called for a cruise missile capable of delivering a nuclear payload to the United States. Analogous developments in the United States were the SM-62 Snark and SM-64 Navaho cruise missiles, particularly the latter, which used parallel technology and had similar performance goals.

  1. ^ Mezhkontinentalnaya krylataya raketa burya (in Russian)
  2. ^ Siddiqi, Asif A. Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945–1974, Part I. NASA.
  3. ^ "FAS.org - "Burya / Buran- Russian / Soviet Nuclear Forces"". Retrieved 2006-06-17.