Russia begins exporting the latest aviation concrete-piercing missiles X-59MKM.
The first foreign customer will receive a batch of aviation concrete-piercing missiles X-59MKM by the end of the year. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a military-diplomatic source. They are designed to defeat well-protected command posts and can break through the protection of concrete slabs.
For the first time, the export X-59MKM was presented at the MAKS-2021 forum. This is a modernized version of the Soviet X-59 Gadfly missile, developed by the A. Ya .Bereznyak State Machine-Building Design Bureau Raduga (part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation).
The main feature of the X-59MKM is in the design of a tandem penetrating warhead with a main charge weighing 320 kilograms and a pre-charge with a total weight of 40 kilograms.
The missile finds the target using the SNAU-59MK-02 navigation and automatic control system, presumably using inertial satellite guidance. The circular probable deviation is 10 meters.
The launch mass of the X-59MKM is 930 kilograms, the length is 5.7 meters, the wingspan is 1.3 meters. The flight altitude is from 15 to 2000 meters. The maximum flight range is 285 kilometers.
Oleg Koryakin