S-71K Kovyor Missile

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Russia has publicly unveiled the S-71K Kovyor, a new air-launched stand-off weapon designed for its Su-57E fifth-generation fighter, during the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt recently.

About S-71K Kovyor Missile

• It is an air-launched cruise missile developed by Russia.
• It is designed primarily for Russia’s Su-57E fifth-generation fighter aircraft.

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S-71K Kovyor Missile Features

• It employs a flattened, broad, aircraft-like planform instead of a conventional cylindrical missile body. 
• It has an asymmetric design with a trapezoidal nose carrying a chin-mounted optical sensor, low-mounted swept-back wings, and inverted V-tails.
• The missile’s three internal fuel tanks and turbojet propulsion give it a conventional powered-cruise flight profile rather than that of a simple glide bomb, letting it approach a target from a different axis than the launch aircraft.
• It has an estimated range between 300 to 350 km.
• It uses an inertial navigation system for guidance and reportedly lacks a sophisticated terminal seeker. 
• It is primarily designed for attacking pre-programmed fixed targets, rather than behaving like a modern imaging missile that can independently identify and select a target immediately before impact.
• It carries a 250 kg OFAB-250-270 high-explosive fragmentation warhead.
• The missile can reportedly cruise near 8,200 metres before descending toward low-level profiles of 20–75 metres over land or approximately five to 15 metres above water, complicating continuous radar tracking.

News: TOI