P-700 Granit - ASM

WEAPON / Difficulty / DAM / PEN / Speed / Guidance / Warhead / RNG
Nuke / Mach 2.5 / See below / 500kt / 600km
Conventional / Average-2 / C:60 B:36 / 650c / Mach 2.5 / See below / 750kg / 600km
WEIGHT / 7000kg
PRICE
OTHER

The P-700 Granit (Russian: П-700 "Гранит"; English: granite) is a Soviet and Russian navalanti-shipmissile. Its GRAU designation is 3M45 and its NATO reporting name is SS-N-19 Shipwreck. It comes in ASCM and SLCM variants.

Design and building

The P-700 was designed in the 1970s to replace the SS-N-7Starbright and SS-N-9Siren, both effective missiles but with too short a range in the face of improving weapons of US Navycarrier battle groups. The missile was partially derived from the SS-N-12Sandbox.

Build by Chelomei/NPO Mashinostroenia, the bulging 10 m missile has swept-back wings and tail, weighs around 7000 kg and can be fitted with either a 750 kg HEwarhead, a FAE warhead, or a 500 ktnuclear warhead. It is launched by two solid-fuel boosters before moving into sustained flight with a ramjet engine, the missile has a distinctive annular air intake in the nose to power the engine. Maximum speed is believed to be around Mach 2.25, earlier NATO estimates posited a turbojet engine and a top speed of Mach 1.5. Range is estimated at 550 to 625 km. The guidance system is mixed-mode, with inertial, active terminal guidance with radar and also anti-radar homing. Mid-course correction is probable.

Deployment

SS-N-19 launchers on the Kirov class cruiser Frunze.

Initial deployment was aboard the cruiser Kirov (now the Admiral Ushakov) in 1980. It is currently in service with the Russian Northern Fleet on the Kirov-class battlecruisers Admiral Nakhimov and Pyotr Velikhy, the aviation cruiser Kuznetsov and as part of the larger guided missile submarines armoury (the Kursk carried 24 missiles). However, the size of the missile limits the platforms on which it can operate and it is being supplanted by the short-ranged but faster and more versatile SS-N-22 Sunburn or later missiles.

Specifications

Name: P-700 (SS-N-19)
Type: Long-range anti-ship cruise missile
Developed: Russia
Weight, kg: 7000
Length, m: 10.0
Body diameter, m: 0.85
Warhead: 750 kg HE (unknown composition, probably RDX or similar) or 500kt fission-fusion thermonuclear
Guidance: Inertial, active radar with home-on-jam, and Legenda satellite targeting system (believed to be nonfunctional after the fall of the USSR)
G limit: 16
Maximum Mach number: 2.5
Range, km: 600
Platforms: Kirov CGN, Kuznetsov CVG, Oscar SSGN