RS-14 Temp-2S

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RS-14 Temp-2S

Temp 2S SS16 Sinner sketch.svg

General Information
Type ICBM
Local name RS-14 Temp-2S, RT-21, 15P642, 15Sch42
NATO designation SS-16 Sinner
Country of origin Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Manufacturer Nadiradze and Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering
development 1969
Commissioning 1976
Working time 1985
Technical specifications
length 18.50 m
diameter 1,790 mm
Combat weight 37,000 - 44,200 kg
Drive
First stage
Second stage
Third stage
Solid
solid
solid
Range 9,200-10,500 km
Furnishing
steering Inertial navigation system
Warhead 1 nuclear warhead with 650 or 1,500 kT
Detonator Programmed detonator
Weapon platforms MAZ-547 truck
CEP

500-1,600 m

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The RS-14 Temp-2S was a vehicle-mounted ballistic ICBM from Soviet production. The NATO designation is SS-16 Sinner . The system index of the Soviet armed forces is RT-21 . When it went into service, the RS-14 was the world's first mobile ICBM system.

development

In 1969, under Alexander Nadiradze, the design offices of the Moscow Institute for Thermal Engineering (MIT) began developing the system. The RS-14 was introduced to the Soviet armed forces in 1976. In the years that followed, 60 launch and transport vehicles and 200 missiles were manufactured.

The RS-14 formed the basis for the later ICBM systems RSD-10 , RS-12M and RS-12M2 .

technology

The RS-14 was a three-stage solid fuel rocket. As a fuel , the RS-14 used the PAL-17/7 fuel based on butyl rubber . Control was carried out using an inertial navigation platform . A precision ( CEP ) of 500–1,300 m (depending on the shooting distance) was achieved.

The system was mounted on the all-terrain MAZ-547 -12 × 12- truck . The Soviet Forces system index for this vehicle is 82SCP2. The system was mobile and quick to install. A minimum reaction time from the drive to the rocket firing of less than 20 minutes was achieved. Each vehicle was armed with a 15Sch42 missile. The development of a launch complex with caterpillar drive (Object 825) has been discontinued.

Due to the relatively poor accuracy of hits, the SS-16 can only be used against so-called "soft targets" such as population centers, industrial complexes , port facilities and railway junctions . US and NATO experts rate the SS-16 as an effective second-strike weapon .

status

All RS-14 systems were stationed in the Plesetsk area. In the course of the SALT II disarmament negotiations, all systems were decommissioned and scrapped in 1985.

See also

literature

  • Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces by Frank von Hippel, Pavel Podvig
  • JANE'S STRATEGIC WEAPON SYSTEMS Edition 2003 Jane's Verlag
  • Land-based Soviet / Russian ballistic guided missiles DTIG - Defense Threat Informations Group, July 2005
  • Soviet-Russian Strategic Missile Complexes AW Karpenko; ADPopow; Ju.S. Solomonov; AFUtkin; - Elbe-Dnjepr-Verlag 2006

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