The Kh-90 GELA (, Hypersonic Experimental Flight Vehicle) is a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

air-to-surface An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on land or sea. There are also unpowered guided glide bombs not considered missiles. The two most common pro ...

hypersonic missile A hypersonic weapon is a weapon capable of maneuvering at hypersonic speed, defined as above Mach 5, or above 5 times the speed of sound. Below Mach 1, weapons would be characterized as subsonic ammunition, subsonic, and above Mach 1, as sup ...

. It was supposed to replace subsonic intermediate range missiles in the Soviet inventory. The missile was an ambitious project, as the main objective was to develop it into a

. It was to be a successor to the

Kh-45 The Kh-45 Molnija "Lightning" was a USSR, Soviet hypersonic flight, hypersonic anti-ship missile, anti-ship air-to-surface missile project. It was developed from 1971 as the main armament for the MKB Raduga, ICD "Raduga"'s T-4 (aircraft), T-4 miss ...

, which never entered service. The missile was designed by Raduga. It was equipped with a one-megaton thermonuclear warhead and used

inertial navigation An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors ( gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning ...

with

mid-course update Command guidance is a type of missile guidance in which a ground station or aircraft relay signals to a guided missile via radio control or through a wire connecting the missile to the launcher and tell the missile where to steer to intercept its ...

via data link. It had a maximum range of 3,000 km. It was developed at the beginning of 1980, following the Kh-80 and

Kholod Kholod (Холод) is an experimental Russian rocket project. The Hypersonic flight, hypersonic rocket uses a scramjet engine and was created to exceed Mach Number, Mach 6+ The prototype consists of a Soyuz (rocket family), Soyuz TMKB with liq ...

projects. It was shown to the public an

MAKS Airshow MAKS (, ) is an international air show held at Zhukovsky International Airport, the home of the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Zhukovsky, southeast of Moscow, Russia. The event was organized by the Russian Ministr ...

1995.

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* * DB A5-90 (Russian Language) {{Russian and Soviet missiles, ASM Nuclear cruise missiles of the Soviet Union Air-to-surface missiles of the Soviet Union MKB Raduga products Hypersonic missiles

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