KSR-5

The KSR-5, known to NATO as the AS-6 Kingfish, is a Soviet air-launched supersonic cruise missile built by the Raduga design bureau as a smaller version of the Kh-22 for the Tu-16 bomber. It is propelled by a two-chamber liquid-fuel rocket engine and guided by an autopilot or inertial system in flight, with an active radar seeker for the terminal dive in the anti-ship role. Estimates give a top speed near Mach 3.5 and a range of about 300 nautical miles, and it could carry a conventional or a nuclear warhead. Series production of the anti-ship version began in 1966 and the missile entered service in 1969 on modernized Tu-16 variants. Later versions included the KSR-5P anti-radar missile, the KSR-5N nuclear missile and the KSR-5NM target missile. The missiles and their carriers were withdrawn from service in the early 1990s, and the surviving stocks were used as air defense training targets.