Raduga Kh-59 (AS-13 Kingbolt) and
Kh-59M (AS-18 Kazoo)
The Kh-59 missile (Article D9) was for the first time publicly displayed in November 1991, in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). This missile is guided by television and propelled by a powder-fuel engine, with a powder- fuel accelerator in the tail. Its folding stabilizers are located at the front, while its cantilever wings with rudders are located in the rear.
The Kh-59M missile differs from the original model by having a twice as large warhead and by another propulsion system. Under the missile body has been suspended a small turbojet engine, the RDK-300 designed by the "Soyuz" [Union] OKB. The missile is brought up to speed by a powder-fuel accelerator located in the tail section and then continues flying propelled by that turbojet engine. Equipped with such a propulsion system, the missile has a three times longer range than the Kh-59.
Because television guidance has the drawback that the target must be "seen" by the missile, which limits the missile's range of action, the Kh-59M has a dual guidance system. After having been fired, the missile is guided by an inertial navigation system into the vicinity of the target and then the television camera is turned on for transmission of images to the receiver on board the missile's carrier aircraft. The transmitter of flight-correcting radio commands (APK-8 for MiG-27K aircraft or APK-9 for Su-24M/30M and newer aircraft) is mounted in a container which hangs under the aircraft. The armament consisting of a Kh-59M missile with such guidance is called Owad [Insect]-M.
Air-Launched Cruise Missile X -59M of class "air-surface" for the front aviation. Control system of rocket - television- command. Engine is turbojet. Fuselage of cylindrical form with the ogive nose cone and the X-shaped wing arrangement. All aggregates of fuselage will be joined on the quick-disconnect fittings. Nose cook jettisoned, it is made from material AMG-'. Cargo hold - from the material VNS-2, wing skin from AMG-', longerons from VKL -3. The sections of fuselage have internal heat insulation from the material OF ATM9-200, stuck on the skin by glue VK -9. Container for the equipment for the flight control of rocket X -59M consists of four sections of cylindrical form. Nose and tail cones have radio-transparent spinners and are riveted to?yubkam?, made from material D -19. Frames are made from the material Of ei-'shchya, body from VKL -3 and Y2KH2NVFA, skin from D -19. From the new technological processes, mastered with the manufacture of this article, the technical process on the filling of fairing with foam plastic PU -10/t in the rigid mold with the established plaits and the joints deserves attention.
