Powerful Russian Antishipping Missiles

I think it’s unfortunate that the West still has
no equivalent to the powerful supersonic Russian
AS-4 Kitchen and AS-5 Kingfish missiles to date.
(I believe Saddam Hussein has some of these in his inventory for use on his Blinders and Badgers).

Diving in onto a carrier battle group at Mach 3 to 3.5,
these 2,000 pound warhead heavyweights are almost
as difficult to intercept and destroy as ballistic
missiles, even with Standards, the sea equivalent
of Patriots.

The typical subsonic seaskimmers with 300 to 500
pound warheads which the West have such as Harpoon, Exocet, Sea Eagle and Kormoran would seem like
peanuts compared to them.

One only need to read novels like Barret Tillman’s
“The Sixth Battle” and Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”
for a hypothetical idea of the how high the risks
are for a carrier battle group of being wiped out
in the event of being attacked by a regiment of
Backfires carrying them. I don’t think even late
generation Standards and a few Phalanx guns can
defeat a saturation attack.

Incidentally, I’ve also noted that CIWS weapons
such as Phalanx and Goalkeeper on Western ships
are pretty sparse (typically two on Aegis-class
cruisers, four at most on carriers) compared
to those on the Russians, which usually have
six to eight 30 mm gatlings (even their small
patrol boats have one 30 mm AK-630 gatling).