KSShch

Armored launcher SM-59 (note horizontal rail) on the stern of Kildin-class Neulovimy

The KSShch (Russian: Корабельный снаряд «Щука» (КСЩ); tr.:Korabelny snaryad Shchuka (KSShch); English: Anti-Ship Missile "Pike") 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 1953–1954 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: 7.6 m (25 ft)
• Diameter: 900 mm (3 ft)
• Wingspan: 4.6 m (15 ft)
• Weight: 3,100 kg (6830 lb)
• Warhead: nuclear warhead or High Explosive
• Propulsion: liquid-fuel rocket
• Range: 68 km (42 mi)
• Guidance: inertial guidance
• Contractor: NPO Mashinostroenia
• Entered service: 1955

Operators

Soviet Union

• 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 The missile was withdrawn by 1977.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

• KS-1 Komet – (Soviet Union)
• Saab Rb 08 – (Sweden)
• P-20 Sokol
• P-40 – (Soviet Union)