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  George1 Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:35 am

The only photo of warheads (MIRV) SS-24 "Scalpel" railway-launching ICBM system,
10 x 550 kilotons.


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RE: SOVIET NUCLEAR BALLISTIC/CRUISE MISSILES

  George1 Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:38 am

RSD-10 Pioneer - SS-20 SABER


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RE: SOVIET NUCLEAR BALLISTIC/CRUISE MISSILES

  GarryB Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:57 am

Nice.... the SS-20 Saber is pretty much what got the US to the table over the
INF treaty....

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RE: SOVIET NUCLEAR BALLISTIC/CRUISE MISSILES

  George1 Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:16 pm

RK-55 3K12 Relief / SSC-X-4 SLINGSHOT - first soviet TOMAHAWKSKI ground missile
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  GarryB Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:12 am

It had no terminal guidance though, so its CEP was something like 250-300m,
which did not really matter when armed with a nuke warhead, but made it useless
in conventional war with a conventional warhead.

This limited their use to WWIII only... improvements to this missile have led to
the current conventionally armed models used in Syria against all sorts of
targets... a much more useful system.

Nice pics BTW.

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  George1 Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:17 pm

First soviet solid IRBM / ICBM 8K95 / RT-1, RT-2


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  George1 Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:09 am

History of Soviet missiles in English


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https://militaryrussia.livejournal.com/441854.html

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  George1 Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:11 am

SS-20 / RSD-10 Pioner missile had 3 MIRV


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RE: SOVIET NUCLEAR BALLISTIC/CRUISE MISSILES

  kvs Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:24 pm

> George1 wrote:The only photo of warheads (MIRV) SS-24 "Scalpel"
> railway-launching ICBM system, 10 x 550 kilotons.
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We had a troll infesting this board claiming that the replacement for the
Scalpel had no significant payload capacity. This
is, of course utter BS. There has been a clear 100% increase in the energy
density of Russian solid rocket fuel compared to
the 1980s. So the Scalpel can be replaced with a missile that weighs about 50%
of the original and able to carry the same
10 x 550 kt payload. Modern MARVs means that the number of warheads is reduced.
But total payload isn't.

The RS-24 is not the replacement for the SS-24:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BZhRK_Barguzin



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RE: SOVIET NUCLEAR BALLISTIC/CRUISE MISSILES

  George1 Sat May 15, 2021 5:45 pm


A NOTE ON MOBILE MISSILES IN THE KATAEV ARCHIV

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Kataev_K5.11_Mobile_missiles.png The Kataev archive contains quite a few
interesting documents. One of them is a note on mobile missiles that describes
basic operations of rail-mobile and road-mobile missiles and makes a case for
keeping them in the RVSN force. It also provides an insight into Soviet thinking
about nuclear strategy.

For some reason I cannot find the document in the Hoover Archive collection
guide, but it is definitely there. It is listed as Document 11 in Box 5 in my
notes, but my system is different from that in the guide. I translated the note
into English, trying to stick to the military-bureaucratic Russian as best as I
can. Here is the document:

"СПРАВКА по ракетным комплексам мобильного базирования [A note on mobile missile
systems]," (translated from Russian by Pavel Podvig), Vitalii Leonidovich Kataev
Papers, Hoover Institution Archive, Stanford University, n.d.

The document does not have a date, but it was probably drafted around 1990 -
that would be the year when the Soviet Union had the number of mobile missiles
mentioned in the note (which we know from other documents in the archive). On
the other hand, some details suggest that it may have been prepared as early as
1988. It appears that the issue came up during the START negotiations that were
underway at the time. The United States, of course, never liked (Soviet) mobile
ICBMs and probably tried to ban them in the new treaty. It's worth noting that
SALT II included a protocol that banned the deployment of mobile ICBM launchers
or testing of ICBMs from these launchers, so it would be expected that the
United States made an effort to do the same in START.

Even if the SALT II entered into force, which it didn't, the ban on mobile
missiles would have expired at the end of 1981, so the Soviet Union proceeded
with the deployment of its land-based mobile missile force. This is where the
documents starts - by the end of the 1980s, the Rocket Forces operated 267
mobile missile systems (in the Soviet tradition, it's always a "missile
system/ракетный комплекс" that includes a missile, its launcher and all the
support equipment). Of these, 24 were rail-mobile RT-23UTTH/SS-24/15Zh61 ICBMs
with ten warheads each (it's not clear if some RT-23/15Zh52 were still deployed
by that time). The rest were 243 single-warhead road-mobile Topol/SS-25 ICBMs.

Patrol areas

Each division of rail-mobile missiles (four trains with three ICBMs each) was
assigned "up to 10,000 km of railways" with 350-370 stops along the routes. The
note says that this is 30 stops per a launcher, but it would be more accurate to
say that it was 90 stops per each three-missile train. A division of road-mobile
Topol ICBMs was assigned a patrol area of 40,000-50,000 square kilometers. A
full division would include 36 missiles, but there were smaller divisions as
well. These are organized in regiments of nine missiles each, further divided
into three three-missile battalions (дивизион). As far as I can tell, a regiment
would normally go on patrol at the same time, but each battalion would travel
independently.

Normally, about 20 percent of regiments would be on patrol or at their field
positions. The rest would be on alert at their permanent bases. Topols, for
example, would stay in their Krona shelters, connected to the command center and
ready to be launched from there at a moment's notice. At a time of a crisis, all
mobile missiles would leave their bases.

It is interesting that START did not actually affect the deployment practices.
Article VI of the treaty required road mobile missiles to be based only in
restricted areas (which would be a missile regiment base) and rail-mobile
missiles - in rail garrisons, but that was what they were doing anyway. Missiles
could leave their bases for "routine movements, relocations, or dispersals,"
which would cover very much everything. The limits imposed by the treaty was not
particularly constraining. Each road-mobile regiment had to stay within its
"deployment area," but that area was quite large - 125,000 square kilometers.
So, a deployment area of a missile division would be 500,000 square kilometers,
which is more than ten times larger than the actual patrol area of a division.
There was no geographical limit on the movements of rail-mobile missiles; the
only condition was that no more than 50 percent of them "may be engaged in
routine movements at any time." But normally no more than 20 percent of the
missiles were on patrol. Moreover, all limits (and notification) were waived for
"operational dispersals."

The note reveals that the Soviet Union, in fact, was considering halving the
deployment rate because of concerns about "the current situation in the country
(the possibility of sabotage)" as well as about accidents.

Targeting

The note is one of the very few documents that provide a glimpse into the Soviet
thinking about nuclear strategy and nuclear missions. It clearly states that
mobile missiles are a retaliatory-strike weapon. And retaliatory strike here
means "deep second strike" or a strike after ride-out. In this kind of strike
mobile missiles would be capable of accomplishing 90 percent of the tasks
assigned to the Rocket Forces (presumably, the SLBM force had its own separate
assignment). The only other option mentioned in the note is "launch from under
attack/otvetno-vstrechnyy udar" when silo-based ICBMs would play the primary
role, covering about 70 percent of the Rocket Forces targets (one would assume
that mobile missiles would also play a role in the launch from under attack
scenario). It is notable that launch on warning is not mentioned and there are
no signs of a first strike. Which, of course, confirms other evidence that
showed that neither of these two options was part of the Soviet nuclear
planning.

The note has absolute numbers too - it says that in a retaliatory strike mobile
missiles can hit "up to 80 typical objects" in the United States. This probably
assumes that the missiles on patrol would survive the attack - say, one train
with three RT-23MUTTH missiles and about 50 Topol ICBMs. The document notes that
this number will be increased to 150 by the year 2000, which is still a bit
lower than 200 targets that is set as a goal for a retaliatory strike. I would
note that this number is, of course, completely arbitrary - there is no way the
capability to strike 200, as opposed to 80, targets provides stronger
deterrence.

Vulnerability

The key advantage of mobile missiles is their ability to hide. Unlike
submarines, however, mobile missiles can be seen from space, so that advantage
is not absolute. The note shows that the Soviet Union was concerned about space
reconnaissance and understood that at some point mobile missiles will be
relatively easy to detect. According to the document it was not a problem in the
late 1980s, when the US was assessed to operate one "Lasp" and two KH-11
satellites. It's not entirely clear what "Lasp" referred to - that name, which
appears to stand for Low-Altitude Surveillance Platform, was mentioned in
connection with KH-8, which ended operations in 1984. In general, it appears
that the Soviet Union didn't have a very good understanding of the US
surveillance programs. It knew, however, about the trends and expected that the
United States will deploy 2-4 Lacrosse radar imaging satellites as well as the
2-4 next-generation Keyhole, referred to as KH-12. In the short run these
developments were to be countered by a number of measures, such as longer
patrols and electronic countermeasures.

It was, however, assessed that the situation will change around 2000 and
reliance on mobile missile will eventually become a risky proposition. To ensure
survivability of its retaliatory force, the Soviet Union was planning to move to
super-hardened silos - 5,000 atm (compared to 100 atm for existing silos) and
eventually to silos with "absolute protection". These were "Fortifikatsiya" and
"Magma" R&D projects. Fortifikatsiya was already included in the
"Protivodeystviye" anti-SDI package.

Construction of super-hardened silos would require lifting the ban on relocation
of existing silos and construction of new ones, which was in place since the
SALT I days. The note also suggested that the Soviet Union should work to remove
a number of other restrictions that were put in place in SALT II - on
air-launched ICBMs, new heavy ICBMs - as well as renegotiate the definition of
throw-weight to allow development of "modular" ICBMs.

This is just a first take on the document. I would appreciate corrections,
comments, and interpretations. Leave them in the comment section below or on
Twitter at @russianforces.

http://russianforces.org/blog/2021/05/a_note_on_mobile_missiles_in_t.shtml

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  GarryB Sun May 16, 2021 7:03 am

No plans to use them in a first strike role....

If these were American systems it would discuss what sort of air lift capability
could carry these vehicles to Asia to launch a first strike from an unexpected
direction that was no fully covered at the time by Russias air defence network,
and the programme would have gotten an enormous funding boost with the end of
the cold war because of all the gaps in Russian air defence with the loss of all
those long range radar systems...



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  kvs Sun May 16, 2021 4:24 pm

> GarryB wrote:No plans to use them in a first strike role....
> 
> If these were American systems it would discuss what sort of air lift
> capability could carry these vehicles to Asia to launch a first strike from an
> unexpected direction that was no fully covered at the time by Russias air
> defence network, and the programme would have gotten an enormous funding boost
> with the end of the cold war because of all the gaps in Russian air defence
> with the loss of all those long range radar systems...


Indeed. The USSR and Russia were not drooling for WWIII like the west is still
drooling about today. The whole yanqui effort to neutralize
Russia's nuclear arsenal with the magical ABM shield is a preparation for war.
And the plans for war are not fading but ripening today with
the ramping up of a new cold war anti-Russian hysteria in the west (e.g. Russian
spies poisoning irrelevant nobodies and blowing up arms depots)
and in-your-face military exercises along Russia's borders (while bitching about
Russia's troop movements near Ukraine designed to disabuse
Kiev of its ambitions to ethnically cleanse the Donbass and grab Crimea).

A sober analysis would see why the USSR/Russia was not eager for war. It
suffered through numerous invasions throughout its history and
WWII which was the bloodiest war in history where 18 million Soviet civilians
died together with 9 million soldiers (including the 3.3 million
who died through deliberate means as POWs of the Nazi forces). The US by
contrast only had the Civil War which is a totally different
experience and can be compartmentalized as distinct from imperial foreign
adventures. The US is the country that thinks war is something
"over there" and a GDP boost. As was its experience in WWII. The US is not
prepared culturally and psychologically for a war on its soil.
It is therefore not able to properly realize the implications of a nuclear war
and the inanity of US deciders is apparent in this regard. The
chauvinist dick stroking fantasy invincibility and triumphalism are breath
taking. These clowns really do think that the whole world is composed
of 3rd world push-overs aside from itself and its hyena pack.



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