R-27 (missile)

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See R27 (airship) for the British rigid airship commissioned in June 1918.

The R-27 was a submarine-launched ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union and employed by the Soviet Navy from 1968 through 1988. NATO assigned the missile the reporting name SS-N-6 Serb. In the USSR, it was given the GRAU index 4K10. It was a liquid fuel rocket using a hypergolic combination of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine as fuel and inhibited red fuming nitric acid as oxidizer.

The R-27 missiles were deployed on eg. the Yankee I submarines, including the unlucky K-219.

Contents 1 Variants 1.1 R-27 1.2 R-27U 1.3 R-27K 2 North Korea 3 Operator 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Variants

[edit] R-27

• Total Mass: 14.200 kg
• Diameter: 1.50 m
• Total Length: 8.89 m
• Span: 1.50 m
• Payload: 650 kg
• Warhead: single nuclear: 1.0 Mt
• Maximum range: 2400 km
• CEP: 1.9 km
• Launch platform: project 667A submarines

[edit] R-27U

• Total Mass: 14.200 kg
• Diameter: 1.50 m
• Total Length: 8.89 m
• Span: 1.50 m
• Payload: 650 kg
• Warhead: 3 : 200 Kt
• Maximum range: 3,000 km
• CEP: 1.3 km
• Launch platform: project 667AU submarines

[edit] R-27K

The 4K18 was a Soviet intermediate-range cruise missile (also known as R-27K, where "K" stands for Korabelnaya which means "ship-based"). First tests in 1974. ^[1] It was operational during the 1970s as part of the Cold War. ^[2] Codenamed SS-N-13.

[edit] North Korea

North Korea was reported^[3]to have reversed engineered the R-27 with the help of ex-Russian missile engineers from VP Makeyev Design Bureau in the 1990s. Two variants, a land based mobile TEL version and a sea-based version was reported to have been developed with the names BM25/Musudan-1. Iran was reported^[4] to have purchased 18 missiles in 2005.

[edit] Operator

•  Soviet Union: The Soviet Navy was the only operator of the R-27.
•  Democratic People's Republic of Korea: R-27 copy, BM25/Musudan-1
•  Iran: R-27 copy, BM25/Musudan-1

[edit] References

1. ^ [1] (Russian)
2. ^ Encyclopedia Astronautica
3. ^ North Korea deploy new missiles, 02 August 2004 (html). Janes Defence Weekly. Retrieved on 12 November 2007.
4. ^ Iran acquires ballistic missiles from DPRK, 29 December 2005 (html). Janes Defence Weekly. Retrieved on 12 November 2007.

[edit] External links

• [2]
• R-27
• R-27 (Globalsecurity.org)

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