The K-9 (
NATO reporting name AA-4 'Awl') was a short-range
air-to-air missile
The newest and the oldest member of Rafael's Python family of AAM for comparisons, Python-5 (displayed lower-front) and Shafrir-1 (upper-back)
An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying ...
developed by the
Soviet Union
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in the late 1950s. It was designed by
MKB Raduga
MKB Raduga (russian: МКБ Радуга, meaning Raduga Design Bureau (russian: машиностроительное конструкторское бюро «Радуга»), where ''raduga'' literally means "rainbow") is a Russian aerospac ...
, 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
The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family was a series of prototype interceptor aircraft designed and built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union from 1955.
Design and development
To fulfil the needs of the '' Protivo-Vozdushn ...
(NATO reporting name 'Flipper'), an experimental high speed twin-engine aircraft, predecessor to the
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by ...
'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 ...
, 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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