About S-71K Kovyor Missile:
- It is an air-launched cruise missile developed by Russia.
- It is designed primarily for Russia’s Su-57E fifth-generation fighter aircraft.
- Features:
- It employs a flattened, broad, aircraft-like planform instead of a conventional cylindrical missile body.
- It has an asymmetric design with a trapezoidal nose carrying a chin-mounted optical sensor, low-mounted swept-back wings, and inverted V-tails.
- The missile's three internal fuel tanks and turbojet propulsion give it a conventional powered-cruise flight profile rather than that of a simple glide bomb, letting it approach a target from a different axis than the launch aircraft.
- It has an estimated range between 300 to 350 km.
- It uses an inertial navigation system for guidance and reportedly lacks a sophisticated terminal seeker.
- It is primarily designed for attacking pre-programmed fixed targets, rather than behaving like a modern imaging missile that can independently identify and select a target immediately before impact.
- It carries a 250 kg OFAB-250-270 high-explosive fragmentation warhead.
