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 was probably built in 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

v • d • e  Russian and former Soviet R designation sequence
R-1/R-2 | R-3 | R-4 | R-5 | R-7 | R-8 | R-9 | R-11, R-300 Elbrus | R-12 | R-13 | R-14 Dvina, R-14 Usovaya | R-15, Tumansky R-15 | R-16 | R-21 | R-23 | R-26 | R-27, Vympel R-27 | R-29 | R-33 | R-36 | R-37 | R-39 | R-40 | R-46, GR-1 | R-60 | R-73 | R-77 | 81R | R-101 | R-103 | R-172 | R-400
Other: | TR-1 | RT-2 | RT-2PM | RT-2UTTH | RT-15 | RT-20 | RT-21 | RT-23 | RT-25 | RSM-56 | RKV-500A, RK-55 | KSR-5 | RSS-40 | UR-100 | UR-100 | UR-100N