Neptune cruise missile

In news–Russia’s largest warship named ‘Moskva’, a guided-missile cruiser has been severely damaged in the Black Sea by Ukraine’s Neptune cruise missile recently.

About Neptune cruise missile-

RK-360MT Neptune are Ukrainian-manufactured anti-ship missiles capable of destroying targets within a range of 300 km.
It can be fired from shore to ship.
Weighing 870 kg and carrying a 150kg warhead, Neptune missiles are capable of destroying targets of up to 5,000 tons.
Its design is based on the Soviet Kh-35 anti-ship missile, and is designed to defeat surface warships.
It also transports vessels with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons.
The missile uses a radar-homing guidance to home in on enemy ships.
The 16-ft long engine-powered missiles can travel at speeds of up to 900 km/h, at heights of between 9 and 30 ft above surface.
The weapons, which are able to be mounted on ships, by land and by air launchers, were formally adopted in August, 2020.
One Neptune division normally has six USPU-360 launchers capable of firing a salvo of the 24 anti-ship missiles.
The missile was first revealed in the ‘Weapons and Security 2015’ exhibition in Kyiv.

Moskva-

Moskva (Moscow), originally known as Slava (glory), is the lead ship of the Slava-class guided missile cruisers, also known as Project 1164 Atlant.
It was built indigenously by the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and still in service with the Russian Navy.
Slava was laid down at a shipyard in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, a major shipbuilding centre on the Black Sea, known as Nikolaev in Russian in 1976.
The cruiser was commissioned into the Soviet Navy in 1983. Decommissioned in 1990, it was reinstated as Moskva by the Russian Navy in 2000.
The Moskva missile cruiser is reportedly armed with 16 anti-ship Vulkan cruise missiles, which have a range of at least 700 kilometres.
It can carry a crew of around 500 personnel.
It is also said to carry anti-torpedo and mine-torpedo weapons.
The cruiser is also equipped with a long-range S-300 surface-to-air missile air defence system