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X-25MSE (Kh-25MSE) Airborne tactical guided modular missile

X-25MSE (Kh-25MSE) Airborne tactical guided modular missile © Konstantinos Panitsidis
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NATO reporting name: AS-10 Karen
Kh-25SME - export version based on the Kh-25MS missile, first appeared in 2005.

The multi-purpose missile is intended for hitting the wide range of surface and ground small target (single target, at well as one of the group) under good and adverse weather, day and night. 


Typical targets for this missile are fixed and mobile-limited objects with coordinates specified in Geographical Reference System.




Technical specifications

DESIGNER "Zvezda-Strela" Design buream, Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC
COUNTRY Russia
TYPE
Air-to-surface missile
Aircraft-bearer (aerial means)
Su-17, Su-24, Su-25, Su-27, MiG-27, MiG-29
Helicopter's-bearer (aerial means)
Ka-50
POWER-PLANT
Solid - propellant rocket
Thrust, kgf
-
DIMENSIONS
 
Length, m
4,355
Diameter, m
0,275
Wing span, m
0,493
Fin span, m
0,755
WEIGHT
 
Maximum missile weight, kg
until 323
Warhead weight, kg
up to 90
PERFORMANCE
 
Maximum speed, m/s (km/h)
920 (3.312)
Missile flight altitude, m
50 - 12.000
Launch range, km
up to 40
Seeker
-
Warhead type
High-explosive or piercing
Guidance system
 
Combined with Direction by laser detection, passive radar, infrared radiation, TV direction.





Photos X-25MSE (Kh-25MSE)