{"id":198176,"date":"2007-12-05T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/05\/rare-glimpse-of-russias-future-cruise-missile\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T11:02:00","slug":"rare-glimpse-of-russias-future-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/05\/rare-glimpse-of-russias-future-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Glimpse Of Russia\u2019s Future Cruise Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new Russian cruise missile, the Kh-101\/102.  <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/R1cBxQ_A0hI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/5FxHL9hmLCw\/s1600-h\/AW_12_03_2007_2224_L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 498px; height: 191px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/R1cBxQ_A0hI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/5FxHL9hmLCw\/s400\/AW_12_03_2007_2224_L.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140579445551190546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>According to Aviation Week (paid subscription required) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2007-12-03&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2007\/12\/03\/AW_12_03_2007_p26-18769.xml&amp;headline=Rare+Glimpse+Of+Russia%26rsquo%3Bs+Future+Cruise+Missile\">this is to have a roughly 5000km (3000 mi) range and a small radar cross section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This compares favorably to the current Kh-55, a non stealthy design with a shorter range (2550 km) and smaller size (6m vs 8m).<\/p>\n<p>On the bottom, about halfway down, appears to be a chin mounted air intake, though this might be some sort of EO sensor, as the -101 version is conventionally armed, and hence needs more precise targeting.<\/p>\n<p>It can be carried internally on the Tu-160 Blackjack, and externally on the TU-95 Bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new Russian cruise missile, the Kh-101\/102. According to Aviation Week (paid subscription required) this is to have a roughly 5000km (3000 mi) range and a small radar cross section. This compares favorably to the current Kh-55, a non stealthy design with a shorter range (2550 km) and smaller size (6m vs 8m). &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006,1180,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-missiles","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}