The KSShch (; tr.:Korabelny snaryad Shchuka (KSShch); ) was a Soviet anti-ship cruise missile design that carried a nuclear warhead. Its GRAU designation is 4K32. It was sometimes referred to as P-1 Strela (П-1 «Стрела», "Arrow"). It was used in the 1950s and 1960s. The missile's NATO reporting name was SS-N-1 Scrubber. It was tested in 19531954 on the destroyer Bedovyy (Kildin-class) and entered service in 1955, being deployed on Kildin- and Krupnyy (later converted to Kanin)-class ships. It was fired from a heavy rail launcher SM-59, with an armoured hangar. As those ships were retrofitted and modernized between 1966 and 1977, the missiles were removed (in favor of the SS-N-2 on the Kildin class and an anti-aircraft/anti-submarine weapons suite on the Kanin class).

Specifications

• Total length: 7.6m (25ft)

• Diameter: 900mm (3ft)

• Wingspan: 4.6m (15ft)

• Weight: 3,100kg (6830lb)

• Warhead: nuclear warhead or High Explosive

• Propulsion: liquid-fuel rocket

• Range:

• Guidance: inertial guidance

• Contractor: NPO Mashinostroenia

• Entered service: 1955

Operators

• The Soviet Navy employed the KSShch on Kildin and Kanin class ships, and tested aboard the Project 68ER cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. The missile was withdrawn by 1977.

See also

• P-20 Sokol

References