RDS-4
RDS-4 | |
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Country | USSR |
Test site | Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR |
Period | August 1953 |
Number of tests | 1 |
Test type | Atmospheric Test |
Device type | Fission |
Max. yield | Total yield 28 kilotons of TNT (120 TJ) |
Test chronology | |
RDS-4 (also known as Tatyana)[1] was a Soviet nuclear bomb. It was the Soviet Union's first mass-produced tactical nuclear weapon. It used a plutonium implosion assembly and had a nominal yield of 30 kilotons.[2] The bomb was delivered from a Tu-4 and Tu-16 aircraft.[2] It was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The bomb was dropped from a IL-28 aircraft at an altitude of 11 km and exploded at 600 m, with a yield of 28 kt.[1][2]
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References
- ^ a b Template:Ru iconMesnyankin, Petr (July 27, 1999). "The Russian Atomic Bomb - 50 years".
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