SS-3 Shyster

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
File:R-5V rocket on display.jpg
R-5 on display at the Zhytomyr Korolyov Museum

The R-5 Pobeda[1] ("Victory") was a theatre ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The R-5M version was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-3 Shyster and carried the GRAU index 8K51.

The R-5 was originally a development of OKB-1 as a single-stage missile with a detachable warhead reentry vehicle. The R-5M was a nuclear armed missile – the first nuclear missile to be deployed by the Soviet Union – with greater payload and weight but better reliability than its predecessor. The R-5M gave the Soviet Union the ability to target many strategic targets in Europe. The R-5M entered service on 21 May 1956 (retired in 1967), and in 1959 was installed at Vogelsang, Zehdenick and Fürstenberg/Havel in East Germany - the first Soviet nuclear missile bases outside of the USSR.[2]

R-5 was additionally an oft-reported alternate designation for the Kaliningrad K-5 air-to-air missile.

Specification

  • Propellant liquid
  • Range 1,200 kilometres (750 mi)
  • Period of storage after fueling 1 hour[3]
  • Time of preparation 2,5 hours
  • Guidance: inertial guidance plus radio command guidance

Operators

 Soviet Union

See also

References

  1. Johnston's Archive - SOVIET/RUSSIAN MISSILE DESIGNATIONS
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. http://inbsite.com/missiles1.html

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>