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Russia unveils Tu-22M3M anti ship strategic bombers armed with Kh-32 1,000 km range supersonic anti ship missiles

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Tu-22M Backfires were always equipped with long range cruise missiles. The stealthiness of the cruise missiles is more important than the speed
 
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Supersonic anti ship cruise missiles is not a true forms of cruise missiles as compare to their subsonic cousins, they haven't any capability to cruise at on the oceans waves like their subsonic cousins (5-8 meters above the oceans) hence they have big RCS and IR signatures, if they want to cruise similar to their subsonic cousins (5-10 meters above the oceans) than these anti ship Cruise missiles will have significantly reduce ranges
 
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Hypersonic speed is not achievable at lower altitudes but 100,000+ feet, and will have big IR/RADAR signature, but it has so low reaction times, that it will be basically invincible to all current and future air defense systems
Supersonic anti ship cruise missiles is not a true forms of cruise missiles as compare to their subsonic cousins, they haven't any capability to cruise at on the oceans waves like their subsonic cousins (5-8 meters above the oceans) hence they have big RCS and IR signatures, if they want to cruise similar to their subsonic cousins (5-10 meters above the oceans) than these anti ship Cruise missiles will have significantly reduce ranges

It's called sea skimming. Modern anti ship missiles are sea skimming.

 
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There is no law of physics that prevents supersonic missile doing sea skimming. I quote:

The YJ-8 is a sea skimming anti-ship missile with active radar homing in the terminal phase.

source: https://weaponsystems.net/system/544-YJ-8
Their is a law of physics that prevent supersonic ASHM can't cruise long range on supersonic speed at lowest altitudes because of dense atmosphere, if they cruise on LOW-LOW trajectories than they reduce their range significantly

and YJ-8 or C-801 is the subsonic ASHM so it can skim on ocean but not supersonic ASHM
 
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Their is a law of physics that prevent supersonic ASHM can't cruise long range on supersonic speed at lowest altitudes because of dense atmosphere, if they cruise on LOW-LOW trajectories than they reduce their range significantly

and YJ-8 or C-801 is the subsonic ASHM so it can skim on ocean but not supersonic ASHM


Sea skimming anti ship missiles existed since 80s. Kh-31 being the first one.

 
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Sea skimming anti ship missiles existed since 80s. Kh-31 being the first one.

These are not true skimming missiles, these missiles' cruise phase is hundreds of meters, whereas subsonic ones have true sea skimming capability (5-10 meters) depending on sea states, and denser atmosphere means more drag and which also means faster fuel consumption to overcome drag hence these supersonic ASHM reduce their range in all LOW-LOW trajectories significantly
 
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