Russia Rekindles High-speed Cruise Weapons Interest<\/span><\/span><\/a> (Paid Subscription Required) Douglas Barrie<\/span> Printed headline: Speed Metal<\/span><\/p>\n Russia dusted off and declassified an almost 30-year-old missile design for display\u2014the 3M-25 Meteorit supersonic strategic cruise missile\u2014at the recent Moscow air show (MAKS). But why present a program canceled in the early 1990s?<\/span><\/p>\n NPO Mashinostroenia\u2019s Meteorit (Meteorite) program had been intended to develop a \u201cuniversal\u201d cruise missile for air, surface and submarine launch. The turbojet-powered weapon would cruise at 75,000 ft. beyond Mach 3.<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/span> Here are the pics of the Meteorit It’s interesting that Russia is dusting off a 30 year old missile design (the 3M-25 Meteorit, pics are at the end, the first picture is a testbed) that was canceled 30 years ago. Part of this, when justaposed with the hypersonic testbed, is to show Russian capabilities, but I believe that there is a more …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1008,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198788"}],"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=198788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Aviation Week & Space Technology<\/span>
10\/08\/2007, page 60<\/span><\/p>\n
London<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/img512.imageshack.us\/img512\/1119\/aw100820071418lax8.jpg\")
On display as well at MAKS was a mock-up of the Central Aero-hydrodynamics Institute\u2019s (TsAGI) GLL-AP-02 hypersonic \u201cflying testbed\u201d (shown). This is a notional Mach 6 air vehicle, to fly at 70,000 ft., powered by a Central Institute of Aviation Motors scramjet. TsAGI is looking at potential weapon applications of hypersonic air vehicles.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a>
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