What the P-800 Oniks is made of

0 documented parts, from recovered wreckage. Each part gives its marking, maker and country where known, and links the record it comes from. The system itself: P-800 Oniks.

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Reported parts

  • Propulsion — Solid-propellant booster for launch, then a kerosene-fuelled ramjet for cruise source
  • Terminal seeker — Active-passive radar homing head; Wikipedia gives an active acquisition range of about 50 km and a seeker mass of 85 kg source
  • Seeker upgrade for land targets — TASS reported in March 2024 that Bastion missiles had received a new active homing head with better accuracy against ground targets and lower sensitivity to interference; Militarnyi noted there was no official confirmation source
  • Midcourse navigation — Inertial navigation for the cruise phase before the seeker takes over source
  • Production — PO Strela (Orenburg), part of the NPO Mashinostroyeniya group, is listed on Ukraine's War&Sanctions portal as a producer of P-800 Oniks and is under US, Canadian, Swiss and EU sanctions source

Part records and photos: HUR War & Sanctions, Ukraine's Defence Intelligence database of foreign components found in Russian weapons, and the other sources named on each part. A marking, date code or country is given as the source records it.