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The KSShch (; tr.:''Korabelny snaryad Shchuka (KSShch)''; ) was a
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anti-ship
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design that carried a
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. Its
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designation is 4K32. It was sometimes referred to as P-1 Strela (П-1 «Стрела», "
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"). It was used in the 1950s and 1960s. The missile's
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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 The P-15 ''Termit'' (; ) is an anti-ship missile developed by the Soviet Union's MKB Raduga, Raduga design bureau in the 1950s. Its GRAU designation was 4K40, its NATO reporting name was ''Styx'' or SS-N-2. China acquired the design in 1958 and ...
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:
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*Range: *Guidance:
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*Contractor:
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*Entered service: 1955


Operators

; * The
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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 The missile was withdrawn by 1977.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

* * * P-20 Sokol *


References

{{Russian and Soviet missiles, SSM Anti-ship cruise missiles of the Soviet Union Cold War anti-ship missiles of the Soviet Union Nuclear cruise missiles of the Soviet Union Cruise missiles of the Cold War Cold War nuclear missiles of the Soviet Union Surface-to-surface missiles of the Soviet Union Military equipment introduced in the 1950s