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Pictures: Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Firing with 3K60 Bal Coastal Missile System during Zapad 2017

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Pictures: Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Firing with 3K60 Bal Coastal Missile System during Zapad 2017
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense released pictures showing the live firing of 3K60 Bal coastal defense system during Zapad 2017 military exercise. Zapad 2017 was a joint strategic military exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus (the Union State) that formally began on 14 September 2017 and ended on 20 September 2017, in Belarus as well as in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and Russia's other north-western areas.
     
3K60 Bal coastal missile system Russia Zapad 2017 13K60 BAL (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) Coastal Missile System of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet 25th Coastal Missile Brigate launching a 3M24 anti-ship missile during Zapad 2017 military exercise. Picture: Russian MoD
     
The pictures show the 25th Coastal Coastal Missile Brigade of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet launching a 3M24 (SS-N-25 'Switchblade') anti-ship missile from the Bal coastal defence system.
     
3K60 Bal coastal missile system Russia Zapad 2017 23K60 BAL (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) Coastal Missile System of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet 25th Coastal Missile Brigate launching a 3M24 anti-ship missile during Zapad 2017 military exercise. Picture: Russian MoD
     
The subsonic Kh-35 (3M24) missile of the Bal complex has a cruising speed of 270 meters per second and a firing range of 120 kilometers. At present the Bal is armed with upgraded Kh-35U (3M24U) missiles with a range of up to 260 kilometers. The altitude of the cruising flight section is 10-15 meters and of the end section - 1.5 meters. Targeting at the cruising section is provided by inertial navigational system with a pulse radio altimeter and at the end section by active radar seeker. Kh-35U is also equipped with a satellite navigational system. The high-explosive fragmenting penetrator warhead weighs 145 kilograms.
     
3K60 Bal coastal missile system Russia Zapad 2017 33K60 BAL (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) Coastal Missile System of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet 25th Coastal Missile Brigate launching a 3M24 anti-ship missile during Zapad 2017 military exercise. Picture: Russian MoD
     
3K60 Bal coastal missile system Russia Zapad 2017 43K60 BAL (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) Coastal Missile System of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet 25th Coastal Missile Brigate. Picture: Russian MoD
     
3K60 Bal coastal missile system Russia Zapad 2017 53K60 BAL (NATO reporting name: SS-C-6 Sennight) Coastal Missile System of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet 25th Coastal Missile Brigate. Picture: Russian MoD