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Sunburn indeed

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Here is a video released by Russian state media in the past few weeks. It shows a target ship hit by two Raduga P-270 Moskit (NATO: SS-N-22 Sunburn) anti-ship missiles during Russian Navy Pacific Fleet exercises.

The money shot is sometime after the 1.20 minute mark if you cant wait.

These ramjet powered beasts have a top-speed of over Mach 3 (how much over is speculation), which means that the ship being targeted by these bad boys has only a few seconds warning, and that traditional countermeasures such as 20mm and 30mm close-in-weapon-systems may not have enough ‘throw’ to stop such a big, fast missile, whose wreckage could still travel hundreds of yards even after being riddled with shells, inflicting tremendous damage by kinetic energy alone even if the warhead is non-functional.

Known users of the Sunburn include Russia, China, and Iran.



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