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Hey, guys whatever happened to ?

pilot.strizhi.info

Used to be a great archive for variety Soviet arms projects including obviously planes.

It is mind-breaking to suggest that the replacement for Granit, by which requiring a replacement due to Granit range no longer being optimal, possesses a shorter range than its predecessor.
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Oniks was never a replacement for Granit. Oniks was designed for smaller ships to fill the gap between then Granit (And it’s successor Bolid ) and Vulcan (And it’s upgrade Vulcan LK ) and Moskit.

At the same time a Moskit successor was in the works by both NPO Novator and NPO Mashinostroyeniya under the Alfa program. NPO Novator came out as a winner with their offering 3M54 Alfa and 3M14 Biryuza missiles (also labeled as ASM-MS and AFM-L) over NPO Mash offering 3M51 Alfa also labeled as ( ASM-MMS)

And yes (Sub launched ) Oniks is a 500 km hi-lo missile. Land based Oniks are limited due to treaty seeing as they are capable of being fully land attack capable. Unlike previous AShM’s which could only engage coastal targets.

Not that it matters. Russia doesn’t have the recon and tracking assets to exploit missiles with ranges over 375 km

Ok got some details from russiandefence

So from offical specs we can conclude

Lo-Lo Range 180 km
Hi-Lo Range 350 km
Hi-Hi Range 450 km

Warhead should be 200-300 kg as Indian Brahmos , I suspect it can do atleast 500-600 km range in hi-hi trajectory but limited by INF treaty

Yep, basicly they didn’t fully fuel them up to keep the Hi-hi range to 450 km which also limits it’s Hi-Lo and Lo-Lo range.

Bastion System Range was reveled by Shoigu in briefing to Putin

http://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/3785071

In addition, there also put coastal complexes” Bastion ” who have closed almost all the coast and today these complexes, we are able to destroy both sea and ground targets “, – the minister said, adding that it was a distance of 350 kilometers in the sea and nearly 450 kilometers on land.

450 km for land targets is probably limited by INF Treaty. The 350 km for sea targets is probably for Lo-Lo altitude for Onyx.

As was mentioned previously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWZCNaZpeE

at low altitude the range was no less then 340 km quoted by official at 0:45 on.

Then there was this

https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140319/1000160934.html

Onyx was also mentioned to have a range of 500 km as sub launched variant. ( Which I previously though and told you was likely Hi-Lo trajectory. )

And now we have more evidence that’s the case

http://trishul-trident.blogspot.nl/2016/06/thats-airpower-for-you-2.html?showComment=1466191375650#c2534935410469194543

P. Sengupta mentions this

The BrahMos-1 has a range of 550km if all its fuel tanks are filled up. But now all those that have already been produced have a range of only 290km, meaning half their fuel tanks are left empty. Once they go for relifing 10 years after their service-entry, these fuel tanks will be filled up & then all of them will have 550km-range.

Now P. Sengupta isn’t the greatest source but it kinda make sense.

Further more

https://in.rbth.com/economics/2013/08/09/yasen-class_nuclear_attack_submarines_to_give_russia_major_edge_28201

As you see Onyx been also mentioned being capable of more then 600 km range (No doubt Hi-Hi)

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That’s the placard for then planned Zhuk-AE (Still using Zhuk-MA as demo) with 1064 T/R modules. That later got split into to two different weight class radars. The FGA-29 features a 575 mm antenna and 680 T/R modules and FGA-35 with 688mm antenna and 1016 T/R modules.

Placard

That placard is the for the Zhuk-MA

All, Russian Dedicated AShM had capability to attack coastal targets. Why the hell is this even a surprise.

UGST was the Export version of Fizik-1 torpedo. But was introduced before it was really ready.