MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Russia's P-800 Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missile for Bastion mobile coastal defence systems will receive new active homing devices, allowing to strike Ukrainian ground targets with greater precision, a source in the Russian defense industry told TASS.
"Initially designed as anti-ship missiles, Oniks received the capacity of striking the adversary’s ground-based facilities with greater precision due to its new active homing device," the source said.
Another source added that "simultaneously, the work is under way to make Oniks missiles invulnerable to Ukrainian electronic warfare equipment."
TASS has received no official confirmation of this information at the time of the publication.
The P-800 Oniks anti-ship cruise missile, marketed in export as the Yakhont, was engineered by the Reutov-based Research and Production Association of Machine-Building (part of the Tactical Missiles Corporation). It can be fired by Bastion coastal defense missile systems, surface ships and submarines. The missile was designed to attack vessels and coastal targets in the environment of electronic warfare and also has techniques for evading air defense fire.
The Oniks missiles have been repeatedly employed in delivering strikes against terrorists’ ground targets in Syria and during the special military operation in Ukraine.