OVERVIEW: The AS-5 KELT (Kh-11) is an air-launched, long-range, liquid fuel, supersonic, rocket-powered, anti-radiation missile. It used a 1000 kg HE warhead.
DETAILS: The AS-5 KELT (KSR-11) anti-radiation missile (ARM) was intended to home in on and destroy air-defense radar and ECM facilities. It is externally almost identical to the KSR-2, but with a 2PRG-11 passive radar seeker. It typically flew a level cruise profile descending into a 25 degree dive to impact.
NOTES: The Kh-11 entered service in approximately 1966. The only known export was approximately 25 Kh-11s to Egypt, which used them against Israel in 1973.
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