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Russia State Rocket Center Makayev 6,500 km 34,388 kg 7x 100kt Inactive N/A Yes Delta III submarine 900m 10 R-29RL: Russia State Rocket Center Makeyev 9,000 km 35,300 kg 1x 450kt Inactive N/A No Delta III submarine 900m 11 R-29RM: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 8,300 km 40,300 kg 4x 200kt Inactive 1982 Yes Delta IV submarine: 550m 12
The RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат, [7] named after the Sarmatians; [8] NATO reporting name: SS-X-29 [9] or SS-X-30 [10]), often colloquially referred to as Satan II by media outlets, is a three-stage Russian silo-based, liquid-fueled, HGV-capable and FOBS-capable super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau.
About 40 missiles will have their service lives extended so that they remain in service until about 2020. With the retirement of the 20 megaton R-36M2 warheads, the highest yield weapon in service with any nation is the estimated 5 Mt Chinese Dong Feng 5 (DF-5) ICBM (CSS-4) warhead and the Russian UR-100N 5 Mt rocket.
What are ICBMs? Intercontinental ballistic missiles are strategic weapons designed to deliver long-distance nuclear warheads and are an important part of Russia’s nuclear deterrent.
Comparative fireball radii for a selection of nuclear weapons. [citation needed] Contrary to the image, which may depict the initial fireball radius, the maximum average fireball radius of Castle Bravo, a 15-megatonne yield surface burst, is 3.3 to 3.7 km (2.1 to 2.3 mi), [6] [7] and not the 1.42 km displayed in the image.
The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons.It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and one of the four countries wielding a nuclear triad.
Jericho III is a road mobile ICBM which entered service in 2008, a three-stage solid propellant missile with a payload of 1,000 to 1,300 kg with a range of 4,800 to 11,500 km [15] (2,982 to 7,180 miles). [16] In November 2011, Israel successfully test fired an ICBM believed to be an upgraded version of the Jericho III. [17]
The Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project says the RS-28 Sarmat, also known as the SS-X-30 Satan II, is a three-stage liquid-fueled ICBM.. Russia began developing ...