Kh-35

launched from helicopters, surface ships and coastal defence batteries with the help of a rocket booster, in which
case it is known as Uran ('Uranus, SS-N-25 'Switchblade', GRAU 3M24 ) or Bal ('Ball', SSC-6 'Sennight',
GRAU 3K60). It is also nicknamed Harpoonski, because it looks like and functions very similar to the American Harpoon Anti-Ship missile. It is designed to attack
vessels up to 5000 tonnes.[2]

1 Development
Zvezda started work on the Kh-35 in 1983 by a decree
of the USSR Council of Ministers and the USSR CPSU
Central Committee to arm ships of medium tonnage.

2 Design
The Kh-35 missile is a subsonic weapon featuring a normal aerodynamic conguration with cruciform wings and
ns[2] and a semisubmerged air duct intake. The propulsion unit is a turbofan engine.[2] The missile is guided to
its target at the nal leg of the trajectory by commands
fed from the active radar homing head and the radio altimeter.[2]
Target designation data can be introduced into the missile from the launch aircraft or ship or external sources.
Flight mission data is inserted into the missile control system after input of target coordinates. An inertial system
controls the missile in ight, stabilizes it at an assigned altitude and brings it to a target location area. At a certain
target range, the homing head is switched on to search
for, lock on and track the target. The inertial control system then turns the missile toward the target and changes
its ight altitude to an extremely low one. At this altitude,
the missile continues the process of homing by the data
fed from the homing head and the inertial control system
until a hit is obtained.
The Kh-35 anti-ship missile can be employed in fair and
adverse weather conditions at sea states up to 5-6, by day
and night, under enemy re and electronic countermeasures.
Bal - coastal mobile missile complex

The Kh-35s aerodynamic conguration is optimized

for high subsonic-speed sea-skimming ight to ensure
The Zvezda Kh-35U ('Star', Russian: 35, AS- stealthy characteristics of the missile. The missile has low
20 'Kayak') is the jet-launched version of a Russian signatures thanks to its small dimensions, sea-skimming
subsonic anti-ship missile. The same missile can also be capability and a special guidance algorithm ensuring
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highly secure operational modes of the active radar

seeker.
Its ARGS-35E active radar seeker operates in both singleand-multiple missile launch modes, acquiring and locking on targets at a maximum range of up to 20 km.[5] A
new radar seeker, Gran-KE have been developed by SPE
Radar MMS[6] and will be replacing the existing ARGS35E X band seeker.[7]

Operational history

OPERATORS

3M-24 - Naval , Anti Ship , also can have LACM

and coastal (Bal , Klub) roles . SS-N-25 Switchblade SLCM from ships boats and submarines .
KN-09 - Reported North Korean copy of the Kh35U.
Kh-37 or Kh-39 possible name for nuclear-tipped
variant .

5 Operators

The Kh-35 missile entered service in 2003. In July 2003,

the system created by the Tactical Missiles Corporation
successfully passed the state tests and began to come into
service of ships of the Russian Navy. Today it is generally accepted that in the criterion of cost-eectiveness,
Uran-E is one of the best systems in the world.[8] It has
also been acquired by India.[9] The Bal coastal missile system in the fall of 2004 showed excellent results in the state
tests and entered service in 2008.[10]

Variants

Map with Kh-35 operators in blue

Kh-35 (3M-24) - Base naval version for Russia 5.1 Current operators
(2003). Missile range - up to 130 km, detection
range 20 km (as in all versions), length and weight
Algeria
4,4 m and 620 kg respectively (as in the land-based
version), body diameter - 0,42 m, wing span - 1,33

Azerbaijan - Bal Coastal missile complex being

m, altitude - en route 1015 m, at terminal area
delivered
about 4 m, cruise speed - 0,8 Mach, warhead type

India
- HE penetrator, warhead weight - 145 kg (as in all
versions).[11]

Iran
Kh-35E (3M-24E) - Export version of Kh-35

Russia - 112 Kh-35 (3M-24) delivered in 2009(1996).

2010.[15]
Kh-35U - Base upgrade unied missile (can be used
The Russian Navy is composed of 4 (16 mowith any carrier), version for Russia in production
bile launch systems) divisions already have a
[12]
(as of July 1, 2015). Range 260 km, with satellite
missile complex called Bal":[16]
navigation and active-passive radar homing head,
1st Division is part of the 11th BSF Brigade
protection from spoong, detection range 50 km.[13]
Utash, Krasnodar
Kh-35UE - Export version of Kh-35U, in produc 2nd Division46th separate division of
tion.
Caspian Flotilla, Dagestan
Kh-35V - Version for Russia, launched from a heli 3rd Division is part of the 15th Black Sea Fleet
copter.
Brigade Sevastopol, Crimea
4th Division in the 72nd PF Regiment
Smolyaninovo, Primorsky Krai.

3M-24EMV - Export version of Kh-35 missiletarget without warhead for Vietnam.

Kh-35 Uran/Uran-E (SS-N-25 'Switchblade', 3M24) - Shipborne equipment of the control system
with a missile Kh-35/Kh-35E.[14]
Bal/Bal-E - Coastal (SSC-6 Sennight) missile
complex with Kh-35/Kh-35E missiles (2008).

Venezuela - Bal Coastal missile complex being

delivered.

Vietnam - 17 Kh-35 delivered in 2009, 16 in

2010, Vietnam to start manufacture under license
from 2012.[15]

Myanmar Navy

North Korea -KN-09/Kh-35U surface to surface.

Similar weapons
Boeing Harpoon (USA) - 221 kg warhead, 93315
km range depending on platform
C-802 (China) - 165 kg warhead, 120180 km
range
Exocet (France) - 165 kg warhead, 180 km range
RBS-15 (Sweden) - 200 kg warhead, 200 km range
Sea Eagle (UK) - 230 kg warhead, 110+ km range

Notes and references

[1] annual report Tactical Missiles Corporation 2010.p. 92

[2] Rosoboronexport Air Force Department and Media & PR
Service, AEROSPACE SYSTEMS export catalogue (PDF),
Rosoboronexport State Corporation, p. 123
[3] " X-35: ".
Retrieved 8 October 2015.
[4] http://articles.janes.com/articles/
Janes-Radar-and-Electronic-Warfare-Systems/
ARGS-35E-Algeria.html[]
[5] Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC. Retrieved 8 October
2015.
[6] http://www.radar-mms.com/catalog/args35/
[7] Russia: JSC Tactical Missile Arms Presents New Target
Seeker. Naval Today. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
[8] ""-": ".
Retrieved 23 December 2014.
[9] Kh-37, Janes Air-Launched Weapons, 2008-08-01
[10] "/". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
[11] Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
[12] ": - "
" 14
". . Retrieved 8 October 2015.
[13] Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
[14] http://www.granit-electron.ru/products/mil/complex/
uran/index.shtml
[15] Annual report Tactical Missiles Corporation 2010.p. 92
[16] " ""
". Retrieved 8 October 2015.

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