Raduga Kh-58 (AS-11 Kilter)
The Kh-58U missile (Article 112, alias D7) was built to replace the
Kh-28, first of all for Su-24M aircraft, and was then used as basic weapon
of MiG-25BM and other aircraft. Target indication and guidance head programming
prior to the launch are done by either an on-board (Su-24M) "Fantazmagoria"
[Phantasmagoria] set or a "Vyyuga" [Snowstorm] set suspended in a container.
The probability of hit within a 20 m radius around an operating radar
station is 80 percent. The Kh-58 version was equipped with an active radar
head.
X -58 - aircraft antiradar cruise missile with the guidance system PRLGSN for the front aviation.
Engine - RDTT - SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINE (tail section of
the glider).
Fuselage - cutoff, all-metal, welded construction, with the
X-shaped wing arrangement and the controlled tail assembly.
The quick-disconnect fittings of wedge-shaped- key construction
are used on the joints of aggregates. Basic material:
OTYA-Y (wing, tail assembly), steel E0KHGSA (structural
assembly), ATM -9 and sealing compound UCH-2Y (external heat
insulation, established by the method of hot pressing).
Wing and the tail assembly of all-welded construction.
Skin and rib from OTYA-Y. Front fairing with the riveted
radio-transparent part, which carries internal landing place under the
equipment beam.
The external surface of the consoles of wing, tail assembly,
fairing, the part of the section BCH and the surface of the engine of
rocket are painted with the enamel of aluminum color. To the
remaining surface of fuselage, which has heat shield, the layer of
sealing compound is substituted. Fairing has inside
heat-shielding coating.
