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Russia is developing a new active homing seeker for the P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missile used in the Bastion-P mobile coastal defense system that will allow it to strike Ukrainian ground targets with greater precision, a source in the Russian defense industry told TASS on March 27.
“Initially designed as anti-ship missiles, Oniks received the capacity of striking the adversary’s ground-based facilities with greater precision due to its new active homing device,” the source said.
Another source told the Russian news agency that “simultaneously, the work is under way to make Oniks missiles invulnerable to Ukrainian electronic warfare equipment.”
The Oniks, which was developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya, has a maximum speed of over Mach 2 and can fly as low as ten meters while cruising.
The supersonic cruise missile can currently achieve an accuracy of less than 1.5 meter thanks to a complex guidance system that combines an inertial navigation system and a state-of-the-art active/passive radar seeker that has a detection range of 50 kilometers.
The missile was designed to be launched from warships and submarines as well as from the ground-based Bastion-P system. The range of the missile is said to be between 600 and 800 kilometers.
The Oniks already have land-attack capabilities. The Russian military has been using P-800 missiles to strike high-value military targets all over Ukraine since the beginning of its special operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
Russia is not only working to improve the land-attack capabilities of the Oniks, but also to further increase its range. Reports from two years ago revealed that work on a version with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers was underway.
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