The Drive: The Soviet Meteorite missile was a powerful and unusual Cold War weapon 
The Soviet Meteorite strategic cruise missile was powerful and an unusual Cold War weapon, ultimately “doomed to failure,” reports The Drive.
“The missile was designed to fly thousands of miles at more than Mach three before detonating a nuclear charge dive at the target, “the publication says.
The American edition recalls that since the late 1960s the rocket has been developed by the Scientific and Production Association (NPO) of mechanical engineering in three versions: ship, aviation and ground. It is noted that the range of the product is 5 thousand kilometers, the maximum height is 24 kilometers.
The publication writes that “Meteorite” received, in particular, foldable shortened triangular wings and a ramjet engine. Initially, the rocket was supposed to carry a pair of warheads with a capacity of 100 kilotons in TNT equivalent each, thrown at a distance of 100 kilometers from each other.
The publication also recalled that a total of 37 Meteorite missiles were launched, of which only one succeeded reach the design range of 5 thousand kilometers. The Drive concludes that while Meteorite “may have been a dead end, the legacy of a high-performance strategic cruise missile still lives on in Russia.”
In November, The Drive wrote that the recently recreated 56th the artillery command of the US Army in Germany will have at its disposal a number of samples of the latest American weapons: a promising Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) hypersonic missile, dubbed Dark Eagle, a multifunctional Typhon system that allows launching a variety of missiles from a single installation including RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM) and Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), and Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) missile.