Metel Anti-Ship Complex

The Metel Anti-Ship Complex, known to NATO as the SS-N-14 Silex, is a Soviet family of anti-submarine missiles, with later versions also able to strike surface ships, developed in the 1960s as the Soviet answer to the United States Navy's ASROC. It carries an underslung anti-submarine torpedo that it releases directly above a suspected submarine's position, and entered operational service in 1969 with a range of roughly 5 to 90 kilometers against submarines and 10 to 100 kilometers against ships. Launched from Kresta II and Kara class cruisers, Krivak class frigates, Udaloy class destroyers and Kirov class battlecruisers, it is no longer in production, having been succeeded by the RPK-2 Viyuga, with roughly 100 estimated still in service as of 2006. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/