--- title: "A Russian company is selling shipping containers packed with cruise missiles" date: "2018-04-02" modified: "2020-10-21" authors: - name: "Logan Nye" job_title: "Senior Contributor, Army Veteran" link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/logan-nye/" url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/russian-cruise-missile-launchers-can-smuggled-shipping-containers/" categories: - "Military News" - "Tactical" - "Weapons" tags: - "Russia" --- # A Russian company is selling shipping containers packed with cruise missiles ![]() Concern Morinformsytem-AGAT, a Russian defense company, has a cruise missile launcher with the external appearance of civilian shipping containers. --- ![]() *Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Vitaly V. Kuzmin* The Club-K was originally exposed to the West in 2010 when [Jane's Defense Weekly editor Robert Hewson disclosed it](). A promotional video shows it quickly transforming from its camouflaged state to its strike configuration before destroying a naval fleet, an armored force, and an air base. It destroys a helicopter carrier at the 7:00 mark, something Hewson believes it could easily do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUU_9bOcnM "It's a carrier-killer," he [told Reuters journalist Michael Stott](). "If you are hit by one or two of them, the kinetic impact is vast ... it's horrendous." The system can fight with just two of the containers: One for targeting and one to actually launch the missiles. An add-on container can launch a UAV for better targeting and to allow for a battle damage assessment. Additional launchers can be linked to the targeting container, allowing for more missiles on target. Though Concern Morinformsytem-AGAT doesn't advertise the Club-K on [its website](), the system has been spotted multiple times. The photo at the top of the page was taken in 2011 at an arms show and Wendell Minnick of Defense News saw [the Club-K in 2014]() at an arms show in Malaysia. Multiple versions of the system are labeled as being for export though no confirmed sales have taken place. ### NOW: That one time in 1995 when Russia almost nuked the United States ### OR: [That one time the US Army stole a Russian helicopter for the CIA ]() ## Author Logan was an Army journalist and paratrooper in the 82nd. Now, he's a freelance writer covering military history, culture, and technology. He has two upcoming podcasts and a Twitch channel focused on basic military literacy. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [Facebook]()