The R-27 Zyb[1] was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb. In the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10. It was a liquid fuel rocket using a hypergolic combination of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine as fuel and inhibited red fuming nitric acid as oxidizer. Between 1974 and 1990 161 missile launches were conducted, with an average success rate of 93%.[2]
The R-27 missiles were deployed on eg. the Yankee I submarines, including the unlucky K-219.
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The 4K18 was a Soviet intermediate-range ballistic anti-ship missile (also known as R-27K, where "K" stands for Korabelnaya which means "ship-based"). First tests in 1974.[3] It was operational during the 1970s as part of the Cold War.[4] Codenamed SS-N-13.
North Korea was reported[5] to have reversed engineered the R-27 with the help of ex-Russian missile engineers from VP Makeyev Design Bureau in the 1990s. Two variants, a land based mobile TEL version and a sea-based version was reported to have been developed with the names BM25/Musudan-1. Iran was reported[6] to have purchased 18 missiles in 2005.
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