P-15 Termit

The P-15 Termit is a Soviet anti-ship missile, the first of its kind. It was introduced in 1961, and quickly became proliferated throughout the world. The two ton missile has a range of 40km, which it flies through at about Mach 0.9, putting its 500kg HEAT warhead on a very unfortunate vessel. Termit missiles can engage targets at far longer ranges than the vast majority of naval guns, only surpassed (barely) by the Yamato's massive battleship cannons. While they cannot deny the engagement range advantage of a carrier air group, the P-15 does significantly close the gap, in a very cost-efficient way.