Kh-35UE technical details

RIAN's correspondent Dmitry Litovkin reported a week ago about a new improved variant   Kh-35UE of the well known 'Uran' ('Harpoonsky') subsonic AShM. According to his information granted by 'Tactical Missiles Weapon Corporation', the change of the engine to lighter one has allowed bigger fuel tank, which in turn raised the range of the missile more than twice .
Most probably they have changed the old Ukrainian made missile turbo-engine to newest 'Saturn's gas-turbine 36MT engine. It has only 25-33 cm in diameter and thrust of 250-400 kg, dry/total weight 85/100 kg, 0,71 kg/kgf.h fuel efficiency. It allowed the drastic increasing in range for all sorts of Russian subsonic missiles, from tactic to strategic. The missiles speed was also raised.

Kh-35UE's guiding system now includes combination of gyro-static, GPS/GLONASS and combined active-passive radar subsystems, which makes the missile more jamming-steady and able to hit broader spectrum of targets. If so strange, why they didn’t offer overtly ground targets hitting capability, while their main competitors did that already ('Club' and 'Brahmos'). However, it could be explained by the long bureaucracy, preventing him from publishing information on MAKS-2009. Indeed, there are two different processes in Russia for giving advertising information about a weapon and for a showcase, so sometimes we can see on exhibitions a weapon without information and information without a weapon. It was reported early that the air-to-ground weapons for the 5^th gen. fighter (PAK FA/FGFA) and UCAVs were not allowed for demonstration on MAKS-2009 despite the manufacturers willing so.

 Specs, arms-expo.ru:

 Launch ranges, km                             7-260

Flight altitude, m        

On cruise                                             10-15

Before hit                                               4

Speed, Mach                                      0.8-0.85

Target aspect angle, degree                    135

Active targeting range, km                    50

Warhead                                            penetrating type

Warhead mass, kg                                  145

Fuel                                                       kerosen

Mass, kg

planes                                              550

rotor wings                                      650

ships/shore                                      670

Length/Dia/wingspan, m

Planes                                              3,85 х 0,42 х 1,33

Rotor wings/ships/shore                  4,40 х 0,42 х 1,33

Launch altitude (km) /speed (M) range

Planes                                              0,2 – 10 / 0,35 – 0,9

Rotor wings                                     0,1 – 3,5 / 0 – 0,25

Photos vitaly.livejournal.com