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To: hamboy
The Sizzler missle is only subsonic!

Nope.

Check out the specs for the 3M-54E model:

KLUB (SS-N-27) ASCM


Special Thanks to Jane's Missiles & Rockets


The Yekaterinburg-based Novator Design Bureau has developed a new cruise missile system designated Klub (NATO: SS-N-27) and is sometimes referred to as the Club, Biryuza and Alpha/Alfa. The Klub ASCM (anti-sub/ship cruise missile) has been designed to destroy submarine and surface vessels of all known types and also engage static/slow-moving targets, whose co-ordinates are known in advance, even if these targets are protected by active defences and electronic countermeasures. There are presently, two 'known' modifications of the system; Klub-S (for submarines) and Klub-N (for surface vessels). The latter can be installed in vertical launch cells or in angled missile boxes, depending upon operational requirements. Both systems are based on common hardware, the only difference being the design of the missile launchers and the missile transport-launching containers. Both modifications come in the supersonic 3M-54E or the subsonic 3M-54E1 AShM (anti-ship missile) variant and the 3M-14E LACM (Land Attack Cruise Missile) variant. Klub-S can also be armed with the 91RE1 anti-submarine torpedo and Klub-N with the 91RE2 anti-submarine torpedo.

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- 3M-54E 3M-54E1 3M-14E 91RE1 91RE2
Length {m} 8.22 6.2 6.2 8.0 6.5
Diameter {m} 0.533 0.533 0.533 0.533 0.533
Launch Weight {kg} 2,300 1,780 1,770 2,050 1,300
Maximum Range {km} 220 300 275 50 40
Speed {Mach} Depends on flight mode (1) 0.6 - 0.8 (2) 0.6 - 0.8 (3) 2.5 (4) 2.0 (5)
Warhead Weight {kg} 200 400 400 76 76
Control System Inertial plus Active
Radar Homing
Inertial plus Active
Radar Homing
Inertial Inertial Inertial
Flight Altitude
over Sea Surface
Not Known Not Known 20 meters Not Known Not Known
Flight Altitude
over Ground Surface
Not Known Not Known 50 - 150 meters Not Known Not Known
Flight Path Low-Flying Low-Flying Low-Flying Ballistic Ballistic

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(1) Subsonic Mode: Mach 0.6 - 0.8, Supersonic Mode: Mach 2.9
(2) Terminal Stage Speed for the 3M-54E1
(3) Terminal Stage Speed for the 3M-14E
(4) Ballistic Stage Speed for the 91RE1
(5) Ballistic Stage Speed for the 91RE2


24 posted on 03/24/2007 10:32:36 AM PDT by Tinian
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To: Tinian

I knew they were exaggerating. It's only Mach 2.9!


26 posted on 03/24/2007 10:37:29 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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