R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile

I was checking the Neptune wikipedia page and the Ukrainians designate their Neptune-ER the "Long Neptune" while the Russians call it the "Neptune-MD", from the article:

The new land attack variant is called Neptune-MD by Russian forces. Ukrainians call it the Long Neptune. On 21 June 2024, a Neptune struck Shahed drone depot and training facility in Krasnodar.[37]
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While this variant has a range of 620 miles (Greater than the Taurus 350's 310 mile range) they'd initially been looking at a land-attack variant with 250 mile range. Anyway with the 600+ mile range of the new land-attack variant does this mean that Ukraine can now directly attack the Kerch Strait bridge with these new missiles?

Anyway here's this new video from "The Military Show" channel concerning it, in the video it was pointed out that the shortest airline route between Ukraine and Moscow is 523 miles (The Neptune-ER has a max range of 621 miles).
 
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Here are a couple of interesting videos analysing the Neptune's radar-seeker dealing with crosspol jamming.


Part I of III: A look at whether antiship missiles having a Neptune-like seeker antenna might be susceptible to Crosspolarization jamming.
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Part II of III: A look at whether antiship missiles having a Neptune-like seeker antenna might be susceptible to Crosspolarization jamming.
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NMaude said:
I was checking the Neptune wikipedia page and the Ukrainians designate their Neptune-ER the "Long Neptune" while the Russians call it the "Neptune-MD", from the article:



While this variant has a range of 620 miles (Greater than the Taurus 350's 310 mile range) they'd initially been looking at a land-attack variant with 250 mile range. Anyway with the 600+ mile range of the new land-attack variant does this mean that Ukraine can now directly attack the Kerch Strait bridge with these new missiles?

Anyway here's this new video from "The Military Show" channel concerning it, in the video it was pointed out that the shortest airline route between Ukraine and Moscow is 523 miles (The Neptune-ER has a max range of 621 miles).
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Interesting!!
 
Forest Green said:
Central section appears widened.
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I noticed that too, no doubt done in order to increase the amount of fuel carried to extend the missile's range, is it my imagination or are its' wings different from the regular R-360?
 
NMaude said:
I noticed that too, no doubt done in order to increase the amount of fuel carried to extend the missile's range, is it my imagination or are its' wings different from the regular R-360?
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Scaled ~x2, both sets of them. "Bloated"(elongated and widened) central section to carry as much fuel as possible.
I frankly wonder, that both it and Flamingo respond to one similar request, something like 1000-1000-1000.

Rather...inelegant solution in both cases, but both are for the job (effectively revenge weapons), not to look pretty.
 
gral_rj said:
Wings appear to have been significantly increased.
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Assuming that the trolley frame is the same size I'd estimate it's ~1.5m longer, as indeed the site suggests. I put the width at 500mm though, maybe 550-600mm. Given a 6.5m length and 0.55-0.60m diameter, the warhead may also be a full size one (400-500kg).

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interesting but why spend such long range missiles on a site that was so close to the Ukrainian border?
 
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