On October 22 the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces successfully performed a test-launch of a UR-100NUTTH/SS-19. The test was part of the checks needed to extend the service of the weapon until 2010.
The Rocket Forces are expected to conduct two more launches this year, one of which would be a test of the RS-24 missile. Moscow is highly optimistic that the upcoming RS-24 test will be successful; it already plans to put this type of missile in service in 2009.
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Showing posts with label SS-19 Stiletto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SS-19 Stiletto. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2008
SS-19 tested
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Cross-blogging: service life of Russian missiles
Pavel Podvig posted an update on Russian missile service lives. He writes that the service life of the Topol is 21 years, SS-19 Stiletto (UR-100NUTTH)- 31 years, both extended by one year. The SS-18 Satan (R-36MUTTH and R-36M2) will now be kept in service for 25 and 20 years, respectively.
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