Yakhont Missile

P-800 Oniks

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Yakhont/Onyx missile
Type	anti-ship cruise missile
Service history
In service	since 1999
Production history
Manufacturer	NPO Mashinostroyeniya
Specifications
Weight	3,000 kg
Length	8.9 m
Diameter	0.7 m
Warhead	300 kg
Engine	ramjet using kerosene liquid fuel
Wingspan	1.7 m
Operational range	120 to 300 km depending on altitude
Flight altitude	5 meters or higher
Speed	Mach 2.5
Guidance system	active-passive, radar seeker head
Launch platform	naval ships, fixed-wing aircraft, coastal installations

The P-800 Oniks (Russian: П-800 Оникс; English: Onyx), also known in export markets as Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby or sapphire), is a Russian/Soviet supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of P-80 Zubr. Its GRAU designation is 3M55. Development reportedly started in 1983, and by 2001 allowed the launch of the missile from land, sea, air and submarine. The missile has the NATO reporting codename SS-N-26. It is reportedly a replacement for the P-270 Moskit, but possibly also for the P-700 Granit. The P-800 was reportedly used as the basis for the joint Russian-Indian supersonic missile the PJ-10 BrahMos.

Sergei Prikhodko, senior adviser to the Russia President, has said that Russia intends to deliver P-800 to Syria. Syria received 2 Bastion missile system with 72 missiles

Description

The missile is carried in flight by aerodynamic lift. The solid-propellant booster is located in the ramjet's combustion chamber and is ejected by the airflow after it has burned out.

Standard batteries of the K-300 Bastion-P(Бастион-П-Подвижный):

• 4 self-propelled launchers K-340P with 2 missiles "Yakhont" (crew of 3 persons)
• 1-2 Command and Control vehicles (ASBU) PBRK (crew of 5 persons)
• 1 car security alert (MOBD)
• 4 Transportation and loading vehicle (TLV K342P)

Specification

• Length: 8.9 m
• Diameter: 0.7 m
• Wingspan: 1.7 m
• Weight: 3100 kg
• The speed at an altitude of 750 m / s (2.6 M)
• The speed at the surface: 2 M
• Range:
• for the combined trajectory (the length of the final section 40 km) - 300 km
• for low-altitude trajectory - 120 km
• flight altitude of 10-14000m
• warhead 250 kg
• period of storage 7 years

Radar homing head.

• active-passive, with frequency hopping
• Immunity: high, from active spoofing, dipole clouds
• range 50 km

Variants

• Oniks Base version for Russia
• Yakhont export version of Oniks
• Brahmos version for India, co-developed by Russia and India, based on Oniks, produced under license by BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited in India.
• Bastion-P Coast mobile missile systema