SSC-4 Slingshot GLCM

The SSC-4 was a transonic, ground-launched, long-range cruise missile similar in concept and mission to the U.S. BGM-109G Gryphon/Tomahawk. Similar Soviet missiles included the submarine-launched SS-N-21 Sampson and the air-launched AS-15 Kent.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) that accompanied the 1987 U.S.-Soviet Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty revealed that the SSC-4 launcher had six tubes and weighed 29.1 metric tons. Subtracting the weight of six missiles...