RT-2

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The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union from 1969 through 1996. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the industry designation 8K98. It was probably designed by the V N Nadradze missile design bureau and they probably built the maximum operational number of 60 by 1972.

The RT-2 was the first solid-propellant ICBM in Soviet service, and was a development of the earlier RT-1 series. It is a three-stage inertially-guided missile that is comparable to the American Minuteman III. It was armed with a single 600 kiloton warhead. It was silo-launched, although a rail-based version was contemplated by Soviet planners.

It was deployed in the Yoshkar Ola missile field.

The two upper stages of the RT-2 were used to develop the RT-15 mobile IRBM system. The RT-2PM Topol is supposedly a modernised version of the RT-2

Contents 1 General Characteristics 2 Operators 3 See also 4 References

[edit] General Characteristics

• Length: 20m (65.6ft)
• Diameter: 1.7m (5.57ft)
• Launch Weight: 34,000kg (33.46 tons)
• Guidance: inertial
• Propulsion: solid, three-stage
• Warhead: 600kt nuclear
• Range: 8000km (4970 miles)

[edit] Operators

•  Soviet Union: The Strategic Rocket Forces were the only operator of the RT-2.

[edit] See also

• List of missiles
• List of rockets

[edit] References

• Hogg, Ian (2000). Twentieth-Century Artillery. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. ISBN 1-58663-299-X

Russian and former Soviet surface-to-surface missiles

The SS designation sequence: SS-1 Scud | SS-2 Sibling | SS-3 Shyster | SS-4 Sandal | SS-5 Skean | SS-6 Sapwood | SS-7 Saddler | SS-8 Sasin | SS-9 Scarp | SS-10 Scrag | SS-11 Sego | SS-12 Scaleboard | SS-13 Savage | SS-14 Scamp\Scapegoat | SS-15 Scrooge | SS-16 Sinner | SS-17 Spanker | SS-18 Satan | SS-19 Stiletto | SS-20 Saber | SS-21 Scarab | SS-22 Scaleboard | SS-23 Spider | SS-24 Scalpel | SS-25 Sickle | SS-26 Stone | SS-27 ? |

List of Russian and former Soviet missiles Missiles