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Kalibr
Russia's mainstay sea- and submarine-launched cruise missile family, covering land-attack and anti-ship roles; first combat use in Syria (2015) and a primary weapon in the war against Ukraine's energy grid.
Russia's mainstay sea- and submarine-launched cruise missile family — combining long-range land-attack and anti-ship variants, and the instrument of large-scale salvos against Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Overview
The Kalibr family, known to NATO as SS-N-27 Sizzler (3M-54) and SS-N-30A (3M-14), is a family of ship- and submarine-launched cruise missiles developed by Novator. It pairs subsonic cruise efficiency with, in the anti-ship 3M-54, a supersonic terminal dash, giving Russia a stand-off strike capability from corvette-sized platforms. Since its first combat use in 2015, the land-attack 3M-14 has become the signature long-range weapon in Moscow’s missile campaigns in Syria and Ukraine.
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