Strategic Missile Forces 2024, May

The last two months have been rich in news about the development of domestic ballistic missiles. At the very beginning of September, it became known that by 2018 the Russian strategic missile forces would receive a new intercontinental missile. The purpose of this development was stated

At the end of 1976, according to a decree of the USSR Council of Ministers, the design bureau under the leadership of V. Chelomey began to develop a project of a universal long-range missile system. The rocket was immediately developed in 3 versions: - sea-based for submarines of the SSGN 949M / 675 / K-420 type; - airborne for

In about 6 years, the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia should receive a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which will be able to overcome the American missile defense system. This was announced in early September by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia

The Soviet intercontinental three-stage ballistic missile "Gnome" was a unique development of the 60s of the last century, but to this day it is the most advanced technology that allows using the first stage ramjet engine not only to strike another

Several years ago, the media around the world spread the news about the achievement of the Russian defense industry: the Club-K missile system was announced at the LIMA-2009 salon in Malaysia. The press, military experts and amateurs of military equipment are interested in him for the reason

On August 21, 1957, the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome located in the Kazakh steppes. The missile successfully covered the given route, and its warhead, which simulated a nuclear warhead, accurately hit a training target in Kamchatka

Currently, only five countries in the world have intercontinental ballistic missiles. These are Russia, Great Britain, China, USA and France. Several more countries intend to join this "club", but so far only India has a chance of this, creating a family

In February 1983, the famous Topol PGRK passed its first tests. The first test flight of the rocket was carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome on February 8, 1983. The first launches were made from modified stationary type silos, in which the RT-2P missiles were previously based. Everything

The United States of America continues to build its strategic missile defense system. This time the fresh news concerns the testing of its new element - the updated Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) rocket. On June 27, it was announced that in the Pacific Ocean, this missile successfully hit

At the beginning of June, Pakistan conducted another training and test launch of the Hatf VII Babur guided missile. Moreover, this launch was far from the first this year. Pakistan in the last ten to fifteen years has begun to attach particular importance to its missile weapons. At the same time, Pakistani

The history of the creation of the tactical complex "Tochka" begins in the late 50s - early 60s of the last century with a task to create domestic missile tactical systems. The first complex, which gave rise to the whole story, was the Yastreb complex with a radio-technical guidance system

Since 1962, the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau began the development of the R-36orb ICBM (the R-36 strategic missile system with the 8K69 orbital missile). This rocket could carry a relatively light warhead into low orbit, and after that a nuclear strike against ground targets was delivered from space. Flight

The Russian military department has successfully launched a completely new prototype ICBM from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The second launch of the new modification of the Yars and Topol missiles was successful, which could not be said about the first launch. All these launches are planned to be used to create a new system

In 2011, the military department of Ukraine announced that the military budget allows it to purchase 10 units of domestic Oplot tanks, modernize 24 tanks to the Bulat level, modernize and repair 21 aircraft, five helicopters, 40 aircraft engines, more than 600 units terrestrial

Barack Obama ordered to save money. The military answered "yes!" and began to draw up an estimate for 2013, taking into account the wishes of the president. We have already saved about five billion dollars (relative to 2012) and about the same amount will be released in the future. Interestingly, in the set of these five

Did the Celestial Empire succeed in what the USSR could not do? According to military analysts, in the very near future, China may begin the deployment of land-based DF-21 ballistic missiles in an anti-ship version capable of hitting moving sea targets. It is assumed that

According to the former head of the press service of the Ministry of Defense, military observer Viktor Barantz, the Russian authorities hastened to adopt the Bulava missile system for the Russian naval strategic nuclear forces. The expert said that with his statements on how the

The Arms of Russia news agency continues to publish ratings of weapons and military equipment. This time, experts evaluated the land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) of Russia and foreign countries. Comparative evaluation was carried out on the following parameters: firepower

The beginning of the process of building medium-range missiles was reported quite recently, by some members of the Turkish government. According to these statements, missiles with a range of 2.5 thousand kilometers will be created in Turkey in the near future. Some Turkish weapons specialists

It is reported about the emergence of complications with the armament of the Aerospace Defense Forces of the Russian Federation. This is evidenced by the fact that the development of a new Russian air defense system (anti-aircraft missile system) S-500 has been postponed for another 2 years. Thus, this air defense system will enter service with the Russian army only by 2017

The origin of the RSD-10 mobile ground missile system with an intermediate-range ballistic missile began in the 70s. The main developer of the RSD-10 is the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, the head of the project development, academician A. Nadiradze. Creation of a rocket, indexed 15Ж45

According to the American newspaper "Washington Times", which cites Internet sources, the Chinese military conducted secret test launches of submarine-launched ballistic missiles - JL-2 SLBMs. This missile is one of China's 3 long-range ballistic missiles. The other two are

A report from the NZ arsenal of the Strategic Missile Forces On the territory of 1 thousand hectares, everything is stored that together and separately can

The main purpose of the TRK "Luna-M" is the destruction of manpower, equipment, weapons and fortified structures located in the tactical zone of enemy defense. In 61, the Soviet army adopted the RC "Luna". The composition of the new missile system: - SPU 2P16; - rocket 3R9 - 3R10; - Crane K-51

As noted by Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia is consistently and steadily continuing to prepare an asymmetric effective response to the deployment of elements of the American European missile defense system, which Dmitry Medvedev (President of Russia) warned about at the end of November. And even though the ultimatum of the head of the Russian Federation is about a missile

In mid-November this year, the United States conducted another test of hypersonic weapons. According to the designers, the tests were successful. Hypersonic aircraft are vehicles capable of reaching speeds of more than five M (1M = 1.1-1.2 thousand km / h). Hypersonic devices

The PJ-10 BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, surface ships, aircraft or land. It is a joint development of the Defense Research and Development Organization of India (DRDO) and the Russian "NPO Mashinostroyenia", which in

Recently, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke out rather harshly about the Euro-Atlantic missile defense system. A lot has already been said about this statement, and the same amount will be said. Among other things, it spoke about the deployment of Iskander tactical missiles in the Kaliningrad region as a symmetrical

In the 54th division of the strategic missile forces, the 2nd regiment of Yars mobile ground complexes is ready to begin combat duty. Now, together with Topol-M, the complexes constitute the main core of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation. Since the Yars complex was created on base

At the very beginning of 1961, the successful tests of the first American solid-propellant missile, the Minuteman-1A, brought the United States to a leading position in the development of medium-range ballistic missiles. The leadership of the Soviet Union at that time could not put up with the fact that the USSR was becoming the second after the United States in

On November 14, 2011, the Russian and foreign media reported about the next successful launch of the 9M723 guided operational-tactical missile of the 9K720 Iskander-M multipurpose modular missile system. The launch was carried out on November 10 at the Kapustin Yar test site in Astrakhan

In 2007, Finland wanted to secretly acquire AGM-158 JASSM stealth cruise missiles from Lockheed Martin to arm its Hornet F / A-18C / D fighters. Despite the history of good relations, the US State Department refused in 2007. Fast forward to 2008. Russia's invasion of

In the White Sea, a new strategic missile carrier (one of the first serial submarines of Project 955, code "Borey") "Yuri Dolgoruky" is under sea trials. The tests were originally scheduled for the spring of 2011, but for various reasons were postponed until this fall. During the tests

In the early 60s of the twentieth century, the whole world froze on the eve of a nuclear apocalypse. Strategic bombers B-52 "Stratofortresses" were on duty in the American sky day and night, carrying on board two very powerful nuclear bombs "B53." The weight of each bomb was 4.5 tons, and if suddenly

The Russian army will receive satellite-guided shells. The Moscow design bureau "Compass" has developed the latest module for unguided artillery shells. "Compass" is one of the main developers of navigation aids for the Russian Armed Forces. The ICD successfully passed

Recently, there has been an increased amount of controversy regarding the future of domestic rocketry. Supporters of the concept "everything is lost" refer to the unsuccessful launches of the R-30 Bulava missile, and their opponents remind that any more or less complex project will not work immediately and in the same way as

For many years now Russia has been trying to get a clear answer to its questions about the North Atlantic missile defense. But the United States and the European countries participating in this project still prefer excuses about the Iranian or, even worse, the North Korean threat (a good answer is where is North Korea and where is Europe). So u

Over the past several years, Russian statesmen, politicians, and experts have consumed tons of paper and uttered hundreds of thousands of words about the deployment of American missile defense. Meanwhile, developments in the field of missile defense were actively carried out (and perhaps are being carried out) not only in

On September 12, the website of the Federal Space Agency published an ordinary, at first glance, message from the category of those that the general public does not usually read. In the “News” section, it was announced the opening of tenders for the right to conclude government contracts. For lot No. 43, subject of the contract

In this article, we will continue our story about domestic anti-ship missile systems and their foreign counterparts. The conversation will focus on the airborne SCRC. So let's get started. German Hs293 and domestic "Pike" The basis for the creation of the anti-ship missile "Pike" was taken German