P-5 Pyatyorka
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The P-5 Pyatyorka (Russian: П-5 «Пятёрка»; "Pyatyorka" means "fiver" in English - the equivalent to an A grade) was a cold war era anti-shipping missile of the Soviet Union, designed by the Chelomei design bureau. Its GRAU designation is 4K34. And NATO reporting name is SS-N-3 Shaddock. The missile entered service in 1959 and was retired about 1990, replaced by the P-500 Bazalt and P-700 Granit. Yugoslavia had SSN3 system as ground-sea.
The missile could be armed with either a 1000 kg high explosive or a 200 or 350 KT nuclear warhead.
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[edit] Operators
[edit] Specifications
- Length: 10.20 m (a/b) or 11.75 m (model C)
- Diameter: 0.98m
- Wingspan: 5 m
- Weight: 5000 kg
- Propulsion: turbojet with launch rocket boosters
- Speed up to Mach 0.9
- Range: 450 km (a/b), 750 km (model C)
- Guidance Inertial with mid course correction via data link. Terminal active radar in conventional-armed versions.
[edit] Deployment
This missile was deployed on the following ships;
- Kynda class cruisers
- Kresta I class cruisers
- Whiskey Twin Cylinder submarines
- Whiskey Long Bin submarines
- Juliett class submarines
- Echo class submarines
