Non-US Cruise Missile, UAV types?

[Ranchoth]

Pardon me for posting, but I was wondering…do any other countries besides the U.S. have cruise missiles, or even Unmanned Aerial Vehicles? Like Russia, for instance?

Thanks in advance,

Ranchoth

[Crusoe]

Britain has the Phoenix UAV in use by the Royal Artillery for spotting, as well the Storm Shadow tactical cruise missile (in development for use by the RAF) and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) for use in ‘Trafalgar’-class SSNs.

From this site:

At least 12 exporting countries—Great Britain, the United States, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and Taiwan—have developed cruise missiles with some capability in the hands of proliferants to threaten U.S. world-wide interests.

[Alessan]

I don’t know about cruise missiles, but the Israeli Air Force invented the UAV back in the late '70s, and still uses them extensively. Until recent years, most UAVs in use around the world were Israeli-made.

[Sam_Stone]

Not only does Britain have cruise missiles, but the first shot in this war was fired by a British submarine, which launched a cruise missile.

I wonder how all those people who protested against the development of the cruise missile feel today? Here in Canada we had to fight them off with sticks every time the U.S. wanted to test one up north.

[tomndebb]

This site tends to be oriented to the U.S., but it has quite a bit of information–including the point that the first trials of this sort of aircraft go back to the British in 1918:
UAV Forum Site Map

[geepee]

well the russians have their own version of the cruise missile i can’t recall the name right now but its on fas.org
its not just huges who make em

[Tranquilis]

Cruise missile development commenced in the US in 1916, when Lawrence Sperry formed a company for the purpose of developing an “Aerial Torpedo”, which first flew sucessfully in March of 1918. Since that time, guided and unguided unmanned aircraft have been experimented off and on around the world. The greatest early success was experienced by Germany with the V-1 “Buzz Bomb”, and some actively-guided gliding bombs used in Naval applications. During WWII, the US experimented with converting worn-out B-17 bombers into enourmous flying bombs, remotely operated by a chase craft after it’s vrew bailed out. The Japanese developed the first “smart missile”, when they put human pilots into short-ranged missiles, which were dropped from parent aircraft, and then suicide-dove onto their target.

The French, of course have perhaps the world’s most well-known cruise missile, the Exocet, and while it’s not terribly long range, Irannian, US, and British navies can all attest to it’s effectiveness, to their sorrow.

EXOCET MM38
The Exocet MM38 is a French ship-launched inertial cruise, anti-ship, active
radar homing missile with a range of 42 km and a flight speed of 0.9 Mach.
It carries a 165 kg warhead.

Some would not consider the Exocet to be a “true” cruise missile because it’s not air-breathing. Brazil’s Avibras Industria Aeroespacial (developer of the ASTROS II, used by the US under the designation “MLRS”) is begining to sell the AV/MT 300, a cheaper, simpler alternative to the TLAM, for nations that doen’t need the heavier payload or langer range of a TLAM. Translated from Portugese:

an advanced tactical missile of cruise with reach of 300 kilometers, AV/MT 300, first weapon endowed with electronic intelligence produced by the Brazilian warlike industry…

…Carried in contêineres double and gone off for an armored cart, the missile pours on the target 24 antitank antipersonnel garnets, arsonists or. The joint fire of two missiles is capable to destroy, for example, a refinery of oil or a great concentration of enemy troops. In another configuration, the war ogive can approximately contain an only load of 200 kilos of high explosive, to be used against blockhouses.

[Tranquilis]

Ooops. Forgot this page linking to nations developing cruise missile capabilities.

One that I forgot to mention, and is perhaps the most exported of the full-capability cruise missiles, China’s Silkworm missile, which is a follow-on of Russia’s SS-N-2 Styx, and which has spawned a whole family of international children:

The Iraqi FAW series is derived from the Chinese HY-2 Silkworm, itself a derivative of the Russian SS-N-2 Styx; Iran is developing a version of the Silkworm, allegedly with North Korean assistance, whose range of some 450 km, puts much of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States within range; North Korea has tested a version of the Silkworm with a range of some 160 km.