RS-26 Rubezh

RS-26 Rubezh
RS-26 Rubezh
Type	Intercontinental ballistic missile
Place of origin	Russia
Service history
Used by	Russian Strategic Missile Troops
Production history
Designer	Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
Specifications
Weight	20 to 50 Ton , up to 80 Ton max
Length	12 19 to 26 30 m
Diameter	< 2,6 m
Warhead	MIRVs with various numbers types yield, single to up to 12 or 16 MARV, HGV other, yield 100 kt to < 900 kt (up to 8 can be each <5Mt or single > 25 Mt warhead)
Engine	Solid-fueled (last stage or warhead block can have liquid)
Propellant	solid , third or fourth (warhead block) can be liquid
Operational; range	within 6000 km to max 12600 km
Speed	over Mach 20 (24,500 km/h; 15,200 mph; 6.81 km/s)
Guidance; system	Inertial with Glonass
Launch; platform	Road-mobile TEL

The RS-26 Rubezh РС-26 Рубеж (also known or within the programs Avangard Авангард) SS-X-31, is a Russian solid-fueled, MIRV-equipped (or MARV maneuverable re-entry vehicles to bypass anti-ballistic missiles or hypersonic Prompt Global Strike-type weapons), thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile^[1] with reported hypersonic warheads^[2] in advanced stages of development as of early 2015, based on the previous RS-24 Yars. After an initial failure in 2011, it was first test-launched successfully from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 26, 2012,^[3]^[4] hitting its target at the Kura Range 6,000 km away minutes later. Further successful tests were performed from Kapustin Yar to Sary Shagan on October 24, 2012,^[5]^[6] and June 6, 2013.^[7] According to the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, the RS-26 Rubezh is expected to become operational in 2016.^[8]

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