OVERVIEW: The AS-22 (Kh-38MAE) is an air-launched, supersonic, solid fuel, active radar homing, air to surface missile.

DETAILS:  The AS-22 is a modular guided missile designed for launch from fixed wing and rotary aircraft to attack a range of armored, soft, and anti-ship targets. The AS-22 famiy of missiles are modular, allowing to switch warhead and guidance packages to respond to tactical needs. The missile can be released from an altitude of 200 to 12,000 meters and an airspeed between 15 and 450 meters per second. After launch the missile can turn up to +/- 80-degree (right/left) in the horizontal plane to engage its intended target with a hit probability between 60 to 80 percent.  The Kh-38MAE varient uses intertial guidance and radar homing to attack a target before detonating its 250-kg high explosive warhead.

The Kh-38MAE varient uses intertial guidance for midcourse updated and active radar for terminal homing. When used against an emitter, the inertial guidance system can continue to guide the weapon to the target, although with reduced accuracy. The Kh-38MAE uses either a HE blast fragmentation or a penetration warhead. 

Specifications:
Weight:		520 kg
Wingspan: 	114 cm
Speed:		2.2 mach/875 kt
Range: 		1.6-40 km

NOTES:  IOC: 2013. The Kh-38MAE is the export version of the Kh-38MA

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"Kh-38MLE." Guide to Military Equipment and Civil Aviation. Accessed October 23, 2016. http://www.deagel.com/Standoff-Weapons/Kh-38MLE_a002425001.aspx ; "Air Force adopted a new high-precision missile Kh-38 "air-land"." Accessed September 25, 2016. https://topwar.ru/23146-vvs-prinyali-na-vooruzhenie-novuyu-sverhtochnuyu-raketu-h-38-klassa-vozduh-zemlya.html 