РК-55 Рельеф (Novator RK-55 Relief)
The RK-55 Relief (SS-N-21 Sampson NATO designation) is a long range subsonic cruise missile that was first introduced in 1984 with two variants; one land-based and the other sea-based. The land-based mobile launcher was the MAZ-543, which carried 6 RK-55 missiles. The land-based missiles maintained further range (3000km) than the submarine launched variant (2400km), and was only intended to carry nuclear warheads. The RK-55’s land-based delivery system was banned by the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), shortly after the Soviets began to equip the road-mobile MAZ-543 launchers.
