| Is Missile: | yes |
| K-9 | |
| Origin: | Soviet Union |
| Type: | short-range air-to-air missile |
| Manufacturer: | Raduga |
| Engine: | two-stage solid-fuel rocket engine |
| Weight: | 245kg (540lb) |
| Length: | 4.5m (14.8feet) |
| Diameter: | 250mm |
| Wingspan: | 1.6m (05.2feet) |
| Speed: | 5040km/h |
| Vehicle Range: | 91NaN1 |
| Filling: | 27kg (60lb) |
| Guidance: | SARH |
| Launch Platform: | Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A |
The K-9 (NATO reporting name AA-4 'Awl') was a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich. The K-9 was also known as the K-155, and would apparently have had the service designation R-38. It was intended to arm the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A (NATO reporting name 'Flipper'), an experimental high speed twin-engine aircraft, predecessor to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat'. When the Ye-152A was shown at Tushino in 1961, a prototype of the K-9 missile was displayed with it.[1]
Neither the 'Flipper' nor the 'Awl' ever entered production.[2]