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Parent topics
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: (ASuW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking surface vessels, from small boats to supertankers and aircraft carriers, from platforms under naval command and control [e]
- Anti-radiation missile [r]: A guided missile that attacks radar transmitters [e]
Subtopics
Anti-shipping missiles
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
- AGM-119 Penguin [r]: U.S. Navy helicopter-launched version of the Kongsberg Penguin missile; largely replaced the AGM-84 Harpoon for anti-surface warfare [e]
- Cheta YJ-62 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cheta YJ-81 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description C-801
- Cheta YJ-82 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description C-802
- Cheta YJ-82 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description C-803
- Cheta HY-1 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description Silkworm
- Exocet [r]: An aging French anti-shipping missile, which can be fired from land, aircraft, helicopter, submarine and ship platforms, and which has a considerable combat record [e]
- Fritz-X [r]: First used by the Luftwaffe in WWII, the first precision guided munition to be used by an aircraft to attack a ship; a visually-guided rocket-boosted bomb [e]
- Kongsberg Penguin missile [r]: A Norwegian-designed anti-shipping missile, designated AGM-119 Penguin in U.S. service, which can be launched from helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, ships and ground vehicles [e]
- Moskit [r]: A family of Russian supersonic, sea-skimming anti-shipping missiles, ship- and air-launched, all designated by NATO as the SS-N-22 SUNBURN guided missile [e]
- Novator 3M-54E (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Otomat (missile) [r]: Made by MBDA, an over-the-horizon, ship-launched missile for hitting ship and land targets [e]
- P-700 3M-45 Granat [r]: An exceptionally powerful, long-range anti-shipping missile carried by Russian/Soviet Kirov-class/Admiral Ushakov-class large cruisers and OSCAR-class cruise missile submarines [e]
- Raduga KSR-5 [r]: A large, high-altitude, supersonic Russian air-to-surface missile, with a conventional or nuclear warhead, typically used against land or sea radar, or against ships [e]
- Raduga Kh-59 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raduga Kh-22M Burya [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RIM-156 Standard SM-2 [r]: Intended to be launched from the vertical launch system of AEGIS battle management system equipment ships, this is principally a long-range surface-to-air missile using semi-active radar homing with no over-the-horizon capability; it can accept midcourse guidance for its secondar anti-shipping missile capability and thus engage over-the-horizon targets [e]
- RIM-2 Terrier [r]: Deployed in the 1950s, the first operational ship-borne surface-to-air missile of the U.S. Navy [e]
- RIM-24 Tartar [r]: A descendant of the U.S. Navy RIM-2 Terrier missile, with reduced size and range, but more capability within its range and usable on smaller ships [e]
- Saab RBS-15 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Silkworm (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Defenses
- Chaff [r]: A passive, disposable radar countermeasure using strips of metal foil or aluminized plastic, cut to match the wavelength of the expected radar, and used to send false reflections back to the radar receiver [e]
- Kashtan (air defense) [r]: An unusual integrated Russian-designed gun-missile combination for defending against anti-shipping missiles, NATO designation CADS-N-1, combining the SA-N-11 'Grison' missile with the Kortik autocannon [e]
- Phalanx close-in weapons system [r]: A 20mm autocannon system originally for shipboard final defense against subsonic anti-shipping missiles, obsolescent in that role but being deployed for land-based counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) defense against guerilla rockets [e]
- RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile [r]: A joint U.S.-German system for final defense against supersonic, sea-skimming anti-shipping missiles such as the Russian Moskit series, generically designated by NATO as SS-N-22 SUNBURN [e]
Other related topics
- Bearing only mode [r]: A paradigm for guided missiles, in which they are launched in the direction of the target, but expected to find it, independently, with onboard sensors [e]
- Cruise missile [r]: A guided missile that uses aerodynamic forces, as well as active jet or rocket propulsion, to stay airborne and to adjust its course. [e]
- Cruiser [r]: While definitions vary with time and doctrine, a large warship capable of acting independently, as a flagship, or a major escort; capabilities include anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, land attack, and possibly ballistic missile defense [e]
- Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets [e]
- Falklands War [r]: 1982 war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands and their dependencies. [e]
- Fast attack craft [r]: Small naval craft, used in coastal waters, which rely on speed and maneuverability to survive to deliver heavy weapons (e.g., torpedoes, anti-shipping missiles) against warships, or to make gunfire attacks on merchant ships and landing craft [e]
- French support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war [r]: French technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; France and the Soviet Union were the leading military suppliers to Iraq [e]
- Sovremenny-class [r]: Soviet-designed destroyer, in service with the Russian and Chinese navies, with an extremely powerful Moskit anti-shipping missile armament [e]
