The
Russian and Mongolian Defence Ministers Anatoli Serdioukov and Luvsanvandangiin
Bold evoked this February 8th, 2010 in Moscow, the prospects for the
bilateral cooperation in the military and technical fields, from the
spokesperson of the Russian ministry Irina Kovaltchouk.
The
RT-2PM Topol, NATO reporting name: SS-25 Sickle,
is a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed
in the Soviet Union and in service with Russia's
Strategic Rocket Forces. The SS-25 is an intercontinental-range,
road mobile, solid propellant ballistic missile
system. The Topol was the first fully road mobile
ICBM commissioned by the Soviet Union. The development
of the SS-25 was actually forbidden by the second
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT II), which
prohibited the development of more than one new
missile system. The SS-25 was officially developed
as an updated SS-13 Mod 2, though it is actually
a completely different missile design. The SS-25
entered development in 1971, with the first flight
test occurring in 1982. The missile entered service
in 1999, with 288 missiles deployed at nine sites
by 1991. Production is believed to have ceased in
1994, with a total of 450 SS-25 missiles built.
It was believed that in July 2002, there were 355
missiles with operational status. In July 2001 an
RV flew several hundred km at 33 km (21 miles) altitude,
suggesting that the RV was a hypersonic missile
test or it had wings and a fitted motor.
Variants
: SS-27 Topol-M : Upgrade version
of SS-25
The
missile is deployed in a transport-launch
canister stationed on a mobile launch vehicle.
The Transporter Erector Launcher is mounted
on cross-country 7-axle chassis which incorprates
jacks, gas and hydraulic drives and cylinders,
with a power of several hundred tons, for
jacking and leveling of the launcher, speeded
up (combat) and slowed down (maintenance)
elevation of the container with the missile
to the vertical position. The TEL is accompanied
by a Mobile command post, which carries
support facilities mounted on cross-country
4-axle chassis with unified vans. The complex
is equipped with an onboard inertial navigation
system which provides a capability to conduct
the launch independently from its field
deployment sites. This topo-geodesic support
and navigation subsystem, created by the
“Signal” Research Institute,
provides a quick and highly precise tie-in
of the launcher in a field position and
enables its crew to carry out missile launches
from any combat patrol route point. The
launch can also be carried out at regimental
bases from the garrison garage, which has
a sliding roof.
Missile
The
SS-25 delivers a payload of 1,000 kg up
to a range of 10,000 km (6,214 miles). This
payload is equipped with a single 550 kT
warhead and probably decoys as well. The
system uses a digital computer controlled
inertial navigation system which provides
an accuracy of 200 m CEP. The SS-25 is 20.5
m long with a diameter of 1.8 m in the first
stage, 1.55 m in the second, and 1.34 m
in the third. Its launch weight is 45,100
kg and it uses a three-stage solid propellant
engine.
Truck
The
RT-2PM is a Russian single-warhead ICBM.
It was designed to be road mobile and is
mounted on a heavy truck (MAZ-7310 or MAZ-7917).
The RT-2 is a road mobile 3-stage, single
warhead ICBM. Its 29.5 meter length and
1.7 meter diameter are approximately the
same size and shape as the U.S. Minuteman
ICBM. It has a throw-weight of 1000 kg and
carries a single warhead with a yield of
550 Kt and accuracy (CEP) of 900m according
to Russian sources [as opposed to 300m according
to Western sources]. Its road mobile capability
gave the SS-25 an extremely high probability
of survival. It can fire from field deployment
sites or through sliding roof garage bases.
Accessories
The
SS-25 missiles are launched from 14 wheeled
Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) vehicles.
They are usually operated in forest areas
to increase their survivability, and their
storage sites are equipped with a sliding
roof to enable emergency launch. The system
is cold-launched from a canister.
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