Strategic Missile Forces 2024, April

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

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

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

THE FIRST IN THE WORLD WITH NUCLEAR HEADS, THE FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL, THE MASSIVE AND THE HEAVYEST The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, forever divided the twentieth century, and with it the entire history of mankind, into two so far unequal nuclear epochs: prenuclear and nuclear epochs. The symbol of the second was, alas, precisely

Despite the fact that the United States and other Western countries supplied the most modern weapons during the Shah's reign, by the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, there were no tactical missile systems in the Islamic Republic. The first tactical missile system delivered from China to Iran was the M-7 (project

"He was sitting at the stern of his new boat. Not as big as before, in his youth. Then every weekend his boat became a refuge for many guests. A huge, diverse, multilingual international. An international of comrades with whom he grew up in the same yard. Life then was like that

The rocket, which laid the foundation for the domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific and engineering experiment The self-propelled launcher of the R-11M rocket at the November parade in Moscow. Photo from the site http: //military.tomsk.ru Even before the end of the tests, the P-11 happened

In addition to the development of ballistic missiles in Iran, much attention is paid to anti-ship missile systems. On the basis of the Fateh-110 operational-tactical complex missile, the Khalij Fars ballistic anti-ship missile was created, first presented in 2011. Initially, the anti-ship missile system was launched with

The rocket, which laid the foundation for the domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific and engineering experiment Photo from the site http: //militaryrussia.ru Soviet missile systems

What hardships the creators of the last oxygenated intercontinental missile of the Soviet Union had to go through, the R-9 rocket on a pedestal at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow. Photo from the site http: //kollektsiya.ru How breakthrough was the technology of using the central drive in the system

"… And for anti-missile defense" This is how the fate of the future "Soviet Minuteman" - the first ampoule-type light intercontinental ballistic missile in the history of the USSR, was actually decided. The speech of the then Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev determined the outcome of the rivalry between Yangel and Chelomei

At the time of the collapse of the Union, the Strategic Missile Forces had six armies and 28 divisions. The number of missiles on alert reached its peak in 1985 (2,500 missiles, of which 1,398 are intercontinental). At the same time, the largest number of warheads on alert was noted in 1986 - 10,300

What hardships had to go through the creators of the last oxygen intercontinental missile of the Soviet Union R-9A rocket on a pedestal at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow. Photo from the site http: //an-84.livejournal.com In a long list of domestic intercontinental ballistic missiles

On February 2, 1956, for the first time in world history, a ballistic missile with an atomic warhead took off. In the history of the Russian armed forces, there were two famous operations called "Baikal". One of them, "Baikal-79", became known almost immediately to the whole world: such a name

In comments to the recent series of articles on the Iranian air defense system, the readers of Voennoye Obozreniye expressed a wish that a similar review be published on Iranian missiles designed to destroy land and sea targets. Today, those who are interested in this topic will introduce themselves

The 15P696 mobile combat missile system developed in Leningrad became the forerunner of the legendary Pioneer. The first prototype of the 15P696 self-propelled launcher in field tests. Photo from the site http://www.globalsecurity.org "Land submarines" - what could be behind this

As part of the Russian Armed Forces, there is a separate branch of the armed forces, which is directly subordinate to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces). Their holiday - the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces - is celebrated in the troops on December 17, according to the Presidential Decree

Why was the development of "weaving" given to OKB-52 of Vladimir Chelomey, who had not previously dealt with intercontinental ballistic missiles UR-100 rocket in a silo launcher with an open TPK. Photo from the site http: //www.arms-expo.ru Among the many legendary samples of domestic weapons, a special place