TR-1 Temp

TR-1 Temp SS-12 Scaleboard
9P120 launcher with 9M76 rocket of missile complex Temp-S
Type	Theatre ballistic missile
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	1969 - 1989
Used by	Soviet Armed Forces
Production history
Designer	Nadiradze OKB
Manufacturer	Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
Specifications
Weight	9,700 kg (21,400 lb)
Length	12.4 m (41 ft)
Diameter	1.01 m (3 ft 4 in)
Warhead	Single 500 kt warhead
Engine	Single-stage liquid propellant
Operational range	900 km (560 mi)
Guidance system	Inertial
Accuracy	370 m (1,210 ft) CEP
Launch platform	Road-mobile TEL

The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76. A modified version was initially identified by NATO as a new design and given the SS-22 reporting name, but later recognized it as merely a variant of the original and maintained the name Scaleboard. The Temp entered service in the mid-1960s.

The TR-1 was designed as a mobile weapon to give theatre (front) commanders nuclear strike capability. The weapon used the same mobile launcher (MAZ-543) as the R-11 Scud missile but had an environmental protective cover that split down the middle and was only opened when the missile was ready to fire. All were decommissioned in 1988-1989.

Operators

Soviet Union

The Soviet Armed Forces were the only operator of the TR-1 Temp. It was also placed in countries of Warsaw Pact for example Hranice (39) in Czechoslovakia, and Königsbrück (19), Bischofswerda (8), Waren (22) and Wokuhl (5) in East Germany. Its active reach from there covered whole West Germany, parts of Scandinavia, France and Netherlands.

See also

• MGM-31 Pershing and Pershing II – comparable U. S. theatre nuclear missiles
• List of missiles

External links

• Global Security: TR-1

References

• Hogg, Ian (2000). Twentieth-Century Artillery. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. ISBN 1-58663-299-X