The K-9 (
NATO reporting name AA-4 'Awl') was a short-range
air-to-air missile developed by the
Soviet Union
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in the late 1950s. It was designed by
MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker
Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, and would apparently have had the service designation R-38. It was intended to arm the
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A (NATO reporting name 'Flipper'), an experimental high speed twin-engine aircraft, predecessor to the
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat'. When the Ye-152A was shown at
Tushino
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in
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
, a prototype of the K-9 missile was displayed with it.
Neither the 'Flipper' nor the 'Awl' ever entered production.
[Gordon, p. 15]
Notes
References
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Air-to-air missiles of the Soviet Union
Cold War air-to-air missiles of the Soviet Union
MKB Raduga products
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