Скачать или смотреть Lavochkin Burya cruise missile (The world's first Mach 3+ technology)

In the United States and Europe, it is widely believed that titanium aircraft with a highly economical engine for flying at a speed of Mach 3+, were created in the United States. This is wrong. The world's first long range cruise missile, almost entirely made of titanium, capable of flying faster than 3 Mach, was created in the USSR. It was the La-350 Byrja ("Storm") missile. Its American counterpart, the SM-64 Navajo cruise missile, was able to reach 2.5 Mach and a range of 2,000 km. The Burya in 1960 flew a distance of 6,500 km (from the Vladimirovka test site to the test site in Kamchatka) in 2 hours. The maximum range could reach 8500 km and the speed of more than 3.5 Mach. The missile was equipped with a warhead weighing 2300 kg (7% of the total weight of the missile, 34 000 kg).