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ChinaPro

YJ-83 / C-802

China's widely exported family of subsonic, turbojet-powered anti-ship cruise missiles, fielded from ships, aircraft and coastal launchers and reproduced in Iran as the Noor, Qader and Ghadir.

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EuropePro

Exocet

The Exocet is a French family of high-subsonic, sea-skimming anti-ship missiles fielded in ship-, air-, submarine- and coast-launched forms, with the latest MM40 Block 3c adding land-attack capability and a new electronic-warfare-resilient seeker.

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ChinaPro

YJ-12

China's YJ-12 is a ramjet-powered supersonic anti-ship cruise missile fielded from H-6 bombers, surface ships and coastal launchers, with the CM-302 offered for export.

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ChinaPro

YJ-18

China's YJ-18 is a ship- and submarine-launched cruise-missile family combining subsonic cruise with a supersonic terminal sprint, with reported anti-ship and land-attack variants.

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USAPro

RGM-84 Harpoon

The RGM-84 Harpoon is a US surface-launched, sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile used from warships and coastal batteries, including Ukraine's Black Sea defenses.

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RussiaPro

Kh-35 (AS-20 Kayak)

The Kh-35 is a Russian subsonic, sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile family deployed from aircraft, ships and coastal launchers, and increasingly used against land targets in Ukraine.

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ChinaPro

YJ-19

China's YJ-19 is a submarine-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship missile sized for standard 533 mm torpedo tubes and accepted for service aboard Type 039B Yuan-class submarines.

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USAPro

AGM-158C LRASM

The AGM-158C LRASM is a low-observable, air-launched anti-ship cruise missile designed to identify and attack warships autonomously in contested electronic environments.

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RussiaPro

Kh-22

A 1960s anti-ship missile carrying nearly a tonne of explosive at Mach 4.6, fired at cities it was never designed to hit. Its error is measured in hundreds of metres, which is why its record in Ukraine is a record of civilian casualties.

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RussiaPro

Slava-class

The Soviet-built Slava-class guided-missile cruiser — a Cold War "carrier-killer" anchored around 16 deck-mounted P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles and an S-300F area air-defence system, now reduced to two active hulls after the sinking of the Black Sea flagship Moskva.