Metel Anti-Ship Complex

RPK-3 Metel (NATO reporting name: SS-N-14 'Silex')
Launcher with SS-N-14 missiles on an Udaloy-class destroyer.
Type	Anti-submarine/ship missile
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	1969–current
Used by	Russia
Production history
Designed	1960s
Specifications
Mass	3,930 kg (8,660 lb)
Length	7.2 m (24 ft) (85R missile)
Warhead	Various ASW torpedoes or nuclear depth charge. Later multi purpose torpedoes and 185 kg shaped charge warhead against ships.
Propellant	solid fuel rocket
Operational range	10 – 90 km for 85RU/URPK-5 Rastrub [1](versus ship) 5 – 50 km (anti-sub )
Maximum depth	20–500 metres
Maximum speed	Mach 0.95, 290 m/s (650 mph)
Guidance system	Radio command via helicopter or other external guidance plus an IR seeker.
Launch platform	Kresta II, Kara, Krivak 1 & 2, Udaloy I, Kirov

Metel Anti-Ship Complex (Russian: противолодочный комплекс «Метель» 'Snowstorm'; NATO reporting name: SS-N-14 Silex) is a Russian family of anti-submarine missiles. There are different anti-submarine variants ('Metel') for cruisers and frigates, and a later version with a shaped charge ('Rastrub') that can be used against shipping as well as submarines.

The missile carries an underslung anti-submarine torpedo which it drops immediately above the suspected position of a submarine. The torpedo then proceeds to search and then home in on the submarine. In the case of the 85RU/URPK-5, the UGMT-1 torpedo is a multi-purpose torpedo and can be used against submarines as well as surface ships. The missile has been in operational service since 1968, but is no longer in production; it was superseded by the RPK-2 Viyuga (SS-N-15 'Starfish').