NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manne ...
for AS series
air-to-surface missiles
An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles. The two most common prop ...
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Soviet
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designations:
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Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
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Russia
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Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
letter "
Х", which is translated as "Kh" or "H". Also, sometimes a combination ("complex") of a missile with its aircraft is marked with a letter "K" (for example, a missile Kh-22 with an aircraft is a "complex K-22"). The Cyrillic "X" (read "Kh") in the designation of Soviet ASMs is in fact a Latin "
X" ("ecks") for Xperimental, as used by the design bureau. With passing time, however, this was ignored and used in Soviet/Russian as well as foreign literature as the Cyrillic Kh.
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AS-1 "Kennel" (KS-1 ''Kometa'')
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AS-2 "Kipper" (K-10S ''Yen'')
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AS-3 "Kangaroo" (Kh-20)
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AS-4 "Kitchen" (Kh-22 Burya)
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AS-5 "Kelt" (Kh-11/KSR-2)
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AS-6 "Kingfish" (Kh-26/KSR-5)
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AS-7 "Kerry" (Kh-66, Kh-23 ''Grom'')
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AS-8 (9M114V ''Shturm-V'')
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AS-9 "Kyle" (Kh-28)
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AS-10 "Karen" (Kh-25)
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AS-11 "Kilter" (Kh-58 ''Izdeliye D-7'')
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AS-12 "Kegler" (Kh-25MP, Kh-27PS)
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AS-13 "Kingbolt" (Kh-59 ''Ovod'')
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AS-14 "Kedge" (Kh-29)
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AS-15 "Kent" (Kh-55/Kh-65S ''Izdeliye 120'')
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AS-16 "Kickback" (Kh-15)
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AS-17 "Krypton" (Kh-31)
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AS-18 "Kazoo" (Kh-59M ''Ovod-M'')
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AS-X-19 "Koala" (3M25A ''Meteorit-A'')
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AS-20 "Kayak" (Kh-35/Kh-37 ''Uran'')
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AS-X-21 (Kh-90 GELA)
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AS-22 "Kazoo" (Kh-59MK2 / Kh-69)
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AS-23 "Kodiak" (Kh-101 / Kh-102)
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AS-24 "Killjoy" (Kh-47M2 ''Kinzhal'')
See also
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NATO reporting name
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air-to-surface missiles
An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles. The two most common prop ...