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🇷🇺 R-37M (RVV-BD)
Air · Vympel (KTRV / Taktik Füze Silahları Şirketi) · Rusya · 2014 (seri üretim) / ~2019 (yaygın operasyonel)
The R-37M (RVV-BD) is a Russian very-long-range air-to-air missile built to kill high-value support aircraft — AWACS, tankers and large drones — from ~300+ km away, fired by MiG-31, Su-35 and Su-57.
Specifications
- Type: Very long-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM/HVH hunter)
- Manufacturer / Origin: Vympel (KTRV), Russia
- Length / Diameter: 4.06 m / 380 mm
- Wingspan: ~720 mm
- Launch weight: ~510 kg
- Propulsion: Dual-pulse solid-fuel rocket motor
- Speed: ~Mach 6 (≈6,000 km/h peak)
- Range: R-37M 300-400 km · RVV-BD export ~200 km (min ~3.7 km)
- Guidance / Seeker: Inertial (INS) + datalink mid-course correction + active radar seeker (9B-1103M-350)
- Warhead: 60 kg high-explosive blast-fragmentation (radar + contact fuzed)
- Launcher platforms: MiG-31BM, Su-35S, Su-30, Su-57
Beats: AIM-120D AMRAAM (ABD) — ~160-180 km menzille R-37M'in 300+ km erişiminin çok altında; R-37M önce ateşler, Meteor (Avrupa/MBDA) — ~150-200 km ham erişimle R-37M'in menzilini ve 60 kg başlığının büyük-hedef letalitesini yakalayamaz, PL-15 (Çin) — ~200-300 km sınıfında güçlü emsal ama R-37M'in MiG-31'den ulaştığı en üst menzil zarfını aşamaz
Loses to: Meteor (Avrupa/MBDA) — ramjet ile uçuş boyu sabit itki sayesinde menzil-sonu kaçış-yok bölgesi ve enerjide R-37M'i geçer, AIM-260 JATM (ABD) — yeni nesil gizli zarf ve modern ağ-merkezli güdümle R-37M'i teknolojik olarak geride bırakması beklenir, AIM-120D AMRAAM (ABD) — daha küçük/çevik ve olgun ağ-entegrasyonuyla çok-rol esneklikte öne çıkar
The R-37M trades dogfight agility for reach: a huge motor drives it to hypersonic speed over very long range to threaten the enablers (AWACS, tankers) that a modern air force depends on, forcing them to operate farther back. Its weakness is the same as its strength — a large, fast missile is easier for an agile fighter to defeat in the endgame, and low-observable targets complicate the lock.
Related systems
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
