The P-270 Moskit is a Soviet supersonicramjet powered anti-shipcruise missile. Its GRAU designation is 3M80, air launched variant is the Kh-41 and its NATO reporting name is SS-N-22 Sunburn. The missile system was designed by the Raduga Design Bureau during the 1970s as a follow up to the P-120 Malakhit. The Moskit was originally designed to be ship-launched, but variants have been adapted to be launched from land, underwater and air, as well as on the Lun-class ekranoplan. The missile can carry conventional and nuclear warheads. The exact classification of the missile is unknown, with varying types reported. This uncertainty is due to the secrecy surrounding an active military weapon. The missile has been purchased and exported to the People's Liberation Army Navy and Indian Navy.
Design
It reaches a speed of at high altitude and Mach 2.2 at low-altitude. This speed is 4.25 to 3 times more than speed of the subsonic American Harpoon. The Moskit was designed to be employed against smaller NATO naval groups in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea and non-NATO vessels in the Pacific, and to defend the Russian mainland against NATO amphibious assault. The missile can perform intensive anti-defense maneuvers with overloads in excess of 10g, which completed for 9 km before the target. Variants of the missile have been designated 3M80M, 3M82. The P-270 designation is believed to be the initial product codename for the class of missile, with the Russian Ministry of DefenseGRAU indices designating the exact variant of the missile. The 3M80 was its original model. The 3M80M model was a 1984 longer range version of the missile, with the latest version with the longest range being the 3M82 Moskit M. The ASM-MSS / Kh-41 variant is the 1993 air-launched version of the missile. The 3M80MVE variant has an optional longer 240 km range through a second, high-altitude flight profile setting, however using the higher altitude profile would make the missile detectable at much greater distances.
Specifications
Launch range:
*min:
*Maximum firing range:
Missile flight speed:
Missile cruising altitude: 10 – 20 m, under 7 m for the attack at the target.
Launch sector relative to ship’s lateral plane, ang.deg: ±60
Launch readiness time:
*From missile power-on till first launch: 50 seconds
*From combat-ready status: 11 seconds
Inter-missile launch time : 5 seconds
Launch weight:
*3M-80E missile
*3M-80E1 missile
Warhead type: penetrator
Warhead weight: 300 kg
Dimensions:
*Length: 9.385 m
*Body diameter: 0.8 m
*Wing span: 2.1 m
*Folded wing/empennage span: 1.3 m
Variants
P-80 Zubr shorter dimensions and range.
P-270 Moskit ' Sunburn ' longer range and dimensions, maybe faster.
