Kh-69

Russia's stealthy precision cruise missile — a low-flying, low-radar-signature weapon shaped with a boxy body so four can fit inside the Su-57's internal bays. Fired from tactical jets with far less early warning than a strategic bomber gives, it destroyed the Trypilska power plant near Kyiv in 2024 and has become a spearhead of the campaign against Ukraine's energy grid.

Overview

The Kh-69 (Х-69; NATO reporting name AS-22 "Kazoo") is a subsonic, low-observable air-launched cruise missile built by MKB Raduga (part of KTRV) for precision strikes on fixed and hardened targets. It is the reworked, internally-carriable evolution of the Kh-59MK2: a flattened, near-square-section body with an internal turbofan and pop-out wings, shaped so four fit inside the Su-57's weapons bays (it is also carried externally on the Su-34, Su-35 and Su-30MK). It is a tactical, lower-warning, harder-to-cue alternative to Russia's strategic Kh-101 — Western analysts compare it to Storm Shadow/SCALP, JASSM and Taurus. For BattlePolicy it is a sharp example of modern precision deep strike: stealthy, accurate, and devastating against infrastructure. (One caveat: a few figures conflict between the official KTRV release and earlier OSINT — flagged below.)

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