Kh-59

The Kh-59 Ovod, whose name means Gadfly, is a Russian air-launched cruise missile built to hit land targets from a stand-off distance. It uses a two-stage solid-fuel propulsion system and is quoted at a range of 200 km. NATO gave the original version the reporting name AS-13 Kingbolt, and the Kh-59M, which adds a turbojet engine and a bigger warhead, is AS-18 Kazoo. A Kh-59MK variant is intended against ships. Raduga OKB developed it in the 1970s as a longer-ranged successor to the Kh-25, with electro-optical sensors from a design bureau in Krasnogorsk. After release from the carrier aircraft a booster fires, the stabilizers and wings unfold, and the missile cruises low under a radar altimeter before an operator in the aircraft locks it onto the target through a television seeker. Russia fielded it on the Su-24M, delivered some 200 to China, and Kh-59M missiles were reported in use during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.