Strategic Missile Forces 2023, March

Not so long ago, an interesting new tradition was formed in the domestic armed forces. A few days before the holiday of this or that kind of troops, a press conference is held with the participation of the commander of these troops. At such events, military leaders talk about their accomplished deeds and plans for

Currently, in the interests of the Russian strategic missile forces, several new complexes of various kinds are being developed, including those using fundamentally new components and products. The command of the Strategic Missile Forces tries to regularly publish this or that information about the course

In general, the idea of a car - a launcher with Minuteman I and MX ICBMs was similar to that used by Soviet developers. At the early stage of the Minuteman program, it was planned to create and put into service intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) of this family of two types

Developers of strategic strike systems are returning to Soviet rails The Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, in cooperation with a number of enterprises, is actively working on the creation of a new Barguzin combat railroad missile system (BZHRK). In this regard, it is worth remembering that we already had

Artillery trail in the history of the RT-15 But in April 1961, no one thought about such a development of events - just like the fact that the chairman of the Council of Chief Designers for the RT-2 rocket project, Academician Sergei Korolev, had only five years of life left, and he will not even see how the first solid fuel

Over the past several months, officials have talked about the imminent start of deliveries of serial Avangard missile systems and the approaching date for putting such systems on alert. According to the latest data, work in this direction has led to the desired results. Rocket

On the eve of the Day of Strategic Missile Forces, several news appeared regarding the further development of this type of troops. In parallel with the operation of existing missile systems, it is planned to create new ones. One of the new projects involves the creation of a combat

According to the news of recent months, this year the first Avangard missile systems, which include hypersonic gliding winged warheads, will take up combat duty. Due to the special combat load, the new complexes are capable of showing high technical and combat

Currently, the strategic missile forces and submarine forces of the navy are armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles of a number of types. Some of the products of this class have already been discontinued, but are still in operation. Others are produced and supplied in

In 2021, it is planned to put into service a new missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-28 "Sarmat". At the moment, the new weapon is undergoing a test cycle, and the bulk of the data on it remains secret. However, official sources have already disclosed

The United States intends to break the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, which in the future may lead to very different consequences in the military-political sphere. The former parties to the agreement will be able to start creating new weapons and reorganizing the corresponding army structures. except

In 1967, a new UR-100 complex with an 8K84 intercontinental ballistic missile entered service with the strategic missile forces. Due to its simplicity and relative cheapness, such a rocket could be produced in large quantities. However, the simplification of the design and a number of others

The main contribution to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation is made by its strategic nuclear forces, which include strategic missile forces, long-range aviation and part of the submarine fleet. Like other components of the armed forces, the strategic nuclear forces undergo systematic modernization and

Over the past several years, one of the main topics in the context of the rearmament of the army has been the promising RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. The new project has gone through a number of important stages and is close to conducting flight design tests. Most of the information about

In the fifties of the last century, there was an active search for new ideas and solutions in the field of strategic weapons. Some of the proposed ideas were of great interest, but proved to be overly difficult to implement and implement. So, since 1955, a promising

One of the main innovations for the Russian strategic missile forces is the promising Avangard complex, which includes a unique hypersonic guided warhead. The newest complex has already passed all the main checks, and in the near future should go into service. Then

The strategic missile forces are armed with unique complexes with the highest characteristics, capable of solving particularly important tasks. Their appearance became possible thanks to a long research program and the creation of new projects with certain qualities. The first real

Several years ago, in the interests of the Strategic Missile Forces, a new 15M107 “Foliage” remote demining vehicle was created, designed to provide combat duty for mobile ground-based missile systems. Such equipment has already entered service with a number of units, and

Russia vs America About the "new Cold War" did not write, probably only a very lazy one. In fact, it is naive to believe that Russia and the United States will measure their nuclear arsenals, as they did half a century ago. The capabilities of countries are fundamentally different: this is clearly visible in military budgets

In my publications on Voennoye Obozreniye (and not only), I have repeatedly considered the issue of the American nuclear arsenal, the difficult, if not worse, situation with it, with the development and production of new warheads and everything connected with it. In particular, it was a question of unrealizable in

So you don’t want to sometimes once again return to the issues of strategic stability, nuclear missile weapons and all that stuff, but you have to. Because in the vastness of world and domestic media resources, shoals of various experts in this matter float, from time to time due to

But what else is there to do with these ideas about the transformation of the most widespread type of nuclear weapon in the US Armed Forces into a "nuclear eunuch." Considering the irreplaceability (for now, not forever, of course) for the United States of nuclear weapons and a decent rate of decline (in the first year of Trump's rule - 354

In the late 1950s, the US military and scientists developed and tested two experimental air-launched ballistic missiles. The products of the WS-199 program proved the fundamental possibility of creating such a weapon, but their own characteristics were far from desired. By this

Various weapons can be used to combat enemy ships, but anti-ship cruise missiles currently play the leading role. In the past, however, other options for anti-ship weapons have been considered. In particular, the issue of creating a ballistic anti-ship missile system was studied. V

The fifties of the last century were a period of rapid development of strategic weapons. So, in the United States, completely new versions of missiles with nuclear warheads for ground units, the navy and the air force were being worked out. The latter initiated work on the WS-199 program, the result

Some time ago in the media, with links to unnamed sources, it was reported that the Rubezh mobile ground missile system (PGRK), created for the Strategic Missile Forces, successfully passed almost all flight design and state tests, into the new state armaments program for 2018-2027

In the mid-fifties, the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force was looking for new ways to improve the technical and combat characteristics of missile weapons. Among other things, the search was carried out for new ideas and solutions, as well as unusual concepts of weapons. For check

Against the background of the events taking place in the world, foreign media recalled the Russian system "Perimeter", known in the West as "Dead Hand". The British press decided to remind its readers of Russia's nuclear power. "Perimeter" is one of the most secret developments in Russia in

In the mid-fifties, the US Air Force began to develop new options for strategic weapons. In 1957, the Pentagon launched a program with the code designation WS-199, the purpose of which was to study the possibilities and create promising models of aviation missile

Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a message to the Federal Assembly. The most important place in the address of the head of state was taken by the story about the latest successes in the field of strategic nuclear missile weapons. Circumstances force our country to develop this direction, and to

Currently, ballistic missiles of various classes are intended only for delivering a warhead to a specified target. They may differ from each other in size, flight data and type of warhead, but the general concept of all such products is the same. In the midst of the Cold War, American

The launch of the first ballistic missile at the Kapustin Yar State Central Range was a breakthrough in a completely new field of science and technology and marked the beginning of test work on the creation of the nuclear missile shield and the space industry of the USSR. In May 1946, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers

35 years ago, the Soviet defense industry conducted the first successful tests of a promising intercontinental ballistic missile from the Topol complex. Subsequently, the necessary refinement of the complex was performed, after which the strategic missile forces received a new

According to the current views of the military-political leadership of the United States, the ground component of the strategic nuclear forces is the main component of the American nuclear triad. This is due to the following distinctive features of ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles

On August 21, 1957, exactly 60 years ago, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) R-7 was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This Soviet missile was the first intercontinental ballistic missile to be successfully tested and delivered a warhead to

The political, press and web debate about the fate of Russian ICBMs is incredibly intense. With reinforced concrete arguments and a sense of their own righteousness, the parties defend some "Bulava", some "Sineva", some liquid-propellant missiles, some solid-propellant. In this

The domestic system "Perimeter", known in the United States and Western Europe as the "Dead Hand", is a complex of automatic control of a massive retaliatory nuclear strike. The system was created back in the Soviet Union at the very height of the Cold War. Its main purpose is

Russia has developed strategic nuclear forces, the main component of which are intercontinental ballistic missiles of various types used in stationary or mobile ground complexes, as well as on submarines. With a certain similarity at the level of basic

Today JSC "State Missile Center named after Academician V. P. Makeev" (JSC "GRTs Makeev") is the leading developer of solid-propellant and liquid-propellant strategic missile systems with ballistic missiles intended for installation on submarines. And also one of the most

Amazing details from the history of guards mortars, hiding behind a dense veil of historical myth. The BM-13 rocket artillery combat vehicle is much better known under the legendary name "Katyusha". And, as is the case with any legend, its history over the decades has not only been mythologized, but also