It follows the Russian military tradition of naming weapon systems with rather incongruous names that rather befit children toys (or actually are names of characters from children's books) - such as the butterfly, apricot, the little ballerina, the squirrel, bouquet, little lamb (that's just ones starting with a and b).
It follows the Russian military tradition of naming weapon systems with rather incongruous names that rather befit children toys (or actually are names of characters from children's books) - such as the butterfly, apricot, the little ballerina, the squirrel, bouquet, little lamb (that's just ones starting with a and b).
Full list (in Russian): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5...