KSShch

The KSShch, from the Russian Korabelny snaryad Shchuka, given in English as Anti-Ship Missile Pike, was a Soviet anti-ship cruise missile design that carried a nuclear warhead. Its GRAU designation is 4K32, it was sometimes called the P-1 Strela, and its NATO reporting name was SS-N-1 Scrubber. It was tested in 1953 and 1954 on the destroyer Bedovyy of the Kildin class and entered service in 1955, deployed on Kildin and Krupnyy class ships, with a later conversion of the Krupnyy ships to the Kanin class. It was fired from a heavy rail launcher, the SM-59, with an armoured hangar. The missile is 7.6 m long, weighs 3,100 kg, uses a liquid-fuel rocket, has inertial guidance and a range of 68 km. As the ships were retrofitted between 1966 and 1977 the missiles were removed, and the Soviet Navy had withdrawn it by 1977.