The K-9 (NATO reporting name AA-4 'Awl') was a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.

It was designed by MKB Raduga, a division of aircraft maker Mikoyan-Gurevich.

It was intended to arm the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A (NATO reporting name 'Flipper'), an experimental high speed twin-engine aircraft, predecessor to the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat'.

When the Ye-152A was shown at Tushino in 1961, a prototype of the K-9 missile was displayed with it.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This Soviet Union–related article is a stub.