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SOM Cruise Missile Family

by Fatih Mehmet Küçük
April 6, 2020
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Stand-Off Missile (SOM) is an air-to-surface Cruise Missile with turbojet engine designed to be used against heavily defended land and sea surface targets. SOM provides the capability of destroying designated military targets with high accuracy with the launching aircraft remaining outside the effective range of hostile air defense systems.

SOM-A and SOM-B1 have been in Turkish Air Force (TurAf) service since 2011. Work for developing other variants, SOM-B2 which has Dual Stage Tandem Penetrating Warhead and SOM-C1 & SOM-C2 which have ASuW and datalink capability, are ongoing.

SOM-A MISSILE

  • Missile Weight ~ 1350 lb.
  • It is the first variant of Stand of Missile Family
  • High explosive blast-fragmentation warhead
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Inertial Navigation System (INS)
  • Terrain Referenced Navigation (TRN)

SOM-B1 MISSILE

It is designed against soft targets such as SOM-A and differently it has Infrared Imaging (IIR) seeker.

  • Missile Weight ~ 1350 lb.
  • High Explosive Blast-Fragmentation Warhead
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Inertial Navigation System (INS)
  • Terrain Referenced Navigation (TRN)
  • Imaging Infrared (IIR) Seeker
  • Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA)

SOM-B2 MISSILE

SOM-B2 is designed against hard concrete targets. Differently from SOM-A and SOM-B1 it has Dual Stage Tandem Penetrating Warhead.

  • Missile Weight ~1450 lb.
  • Dual Stage Tandem Penetrating Warhead
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Inertial Navigation System (INS)
  • Terrain Referenced Navigation (TRN)
  • Imaging Infrared (IIR) Seeker
  • Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA)

SOM-J MISSILE

SOM-J is one of the variants of the SOM Missile System Family specially designed for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) internal/external carriage and used against highly defended, anti-access and high value stationary and moving surface (ASuW) and land targets.

  • Missile Weight ~1000 lb.
  • Semi-Armor Piercing Warhead
  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Inertial Navigation System (INS)
  • Terrain Referenced Navigation (TRN)
  • Imaging Infrared (IIR) Seeker
  • Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA)
  • Network Enabled Weapon (NEW) Capability
  • Universal Armament Interface (UAI) Compatibility
  • Off-Board, On-Board and In-Flight Mission Planning Capability

 

MISSILE     WARHEAD GUIDANCE PLATFORMS RANGE
SOM-A High Explosive Blastfragmentation GPS-INS-TRN F-4E/2020
F-16 Blok 40
250 KM
SOM-B1 High Explosive Blastfragmentation GPS-INS-TRN- IIR SEEKER + ATA F-4E/2020
F-16 Blok 40
250 KM
SOM-B2 Dual Stage Tandem Penetrating GPS-INS-TRN- IIR SEEKER + ATA F-4E/2020
F-16 Blok 40
250 KM
SOM-J Semi-Armor Piercing GPS-INS-TRN F-16
F-35
200+ KM
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Fatih Mehmet Küçük

Fatih Mehmet Küçük

Graduate of Computer Programming. Defense industry and defense policy researcher. Amateur photographer. He is interested in war doctrines.

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