At the moment the
missile has a maximum range of 300 kilometers and maximum speed of up to Mach
2.5 at high altitudes.
MOSCOW, September 13.
/TASS/. The joint stock company NPO Mashinostroyeniya (an affiliate of the
corporation Tactical Missile Corporation) plans to upgrade its supersonic
anti-ship cruise missile Oniks.
"It is true that
we have been asked to improve the Oniks missile’s flight parameters for
increasing the effectiveness of this anti-ship complex," a spokesman for
NPO Mashinostroyeniya told TASS without specifying what parameters were in
question.
At the moment the
missile has a maximum range of 300 kilometers and maximum speed of up to Mach
2.5 at high altitudes. The warhead’s mass is up to 250 kilograms. The missile
can be launched from both surface ships and submarines.
The anti-ship system
P-800 armed with the Oniks missile began to be developed in 1982. The missile
was authorized for service twenty years later, in 2002.
Source: ITAR-TASS
13-09-2019
