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coastal defense Weapon Systems

Weapon systems and military equipment tagged coastal defense.

5 weapon systems

Harpoon, Coastal and anti-ship cruise missile system, Artillery

ArtilleryHarpoonCoastal and anti-ship cruise missile systemSide: UkraineBuilt: Boeing / United StatesHarpoon is a U.S.-origin all-weather anti-ship cruise missile family built around active radar terminal homing and sea-skimming flight. In the Russia-Ukraine War, Ukraine received land-based Harpoon coastal defense systems and adapted truck-launched RGM-84 missiles to threaten Russian surface ships operating near the Black Sea coast.

R-360 Neptune / Long Neptune, Truck-launched anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile, Artillery

ArtilleryR-360 Neptune / Long NeptuneTruck-launched anti-ship and land-attack cruise missileSide: UkraineBuilt: State Kyiv Design Bureau Luch / UkraineThe R-360 Neptune is a Ukrainian truck-launched cruise missile developed by State Kyiv Design Bureau Luch as a coastal anti-ship system and later adapted into longer-range land-attack variants. In the Russia-Ukraine War it became one of Ukraine's most visible domestic precision-strike weapons, first for Black Sea targets such as Moskva and later through the Long Neptune / Neptune-D family reported with a 1,000 km reach.

P-15 Termit, Soviet anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

MunitionsP-15 TermitSoviet anti-ship cruise missileSide: UnknownBuilt: MKB Raduga / Progress plant, Arsenyev / Soviet UnionThe P-15 Termit, known to NATO as the SS-N-2 Styx, is a Soviet anti-ship cruise missile developed by MKB Raduga for small missile boats and coastal batteries. It entered service in 1960, used active radar guidance with inertial/autopilot midcourse control, and became the missile fired by coastal-defense systems such as the 4K51 Rubezh.

4K51 Rubezh coastal-defense missile, Mobile coastal-defense missile system, Naval Systems

Naval Systems4K51 Rubezh coastal-defense missileMobile coastal-defense missile systemSide: Houthi-aligned forcesBuilt: KBM Kolomna / Soviet UnionThe 4K51 Rubezh is a Soviet mobile coastal-defense system built around the P-15 Termit anti-ship missile and a MAZ-543 launcher. In the Yemen Civil War, Houthi forces fielded Rubezh missiles taken from Yemeni Army stocks as part of their anti-shipping arsenal.

Mobile coastal launcher, Truck-mounted mobile coastal launcher for anti-ship cruise missiles, Naval Systems

Naval SystemsMobile coastal launcherTruck-mounted mobile coastal launcher for anti-ship cruise missilesSide: UnknownBuilt: Houthi movement / YemenThis Houthi mobile coastal launcher is a truck-mounted shore battery assembled from recovered C.801 launchers and surface-search radars taken from Yemeni Navy stocks. Open-source reporting ties it to the Al-Mandab-1 anti-ship cruise missile and the later Al-Mandab-2 family, and says the missile's launch range from the launcher does not exceed 40 km.