The P-15 Termit, known to NATO as SS-N-2 Styx, was a Soviet anti-ship missile developed by Raduga in the 1950s. It became one of the most widely recognized early ship-launched anti-ship missiles and was exported widely.
The Termit was not a compact weapon, but it gave small combatants and coastal-defense units a serious standoff strike capability against larger warships. Its guidance and flight profile were primitive by later standards, yet its payload and reach made it disruptive in littoral warfare.
The missile's combat reputation helped validate the missile-boat concept and forced navies to treat small surface craft as serious threats. Later anti-ship missiles became faster, smaller, and harder to intercept, but Termit established the practical model for massed coastal and patrol-boat missile attacks.
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