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Russia to Build New ICBM by 2018 - SMF Chief
Russia to Build New ICBM by 2018 - SMF Chief
© Photo Strategic Missile ForcesMOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti)
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Russia will build a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile by 2018, Strategic Missile Forces commander Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Monday.
“Construction of the missile is ongoing,” he said. “It is to be completed by 2018.”
The new missile is to replace the R-36M2 Voyevoda (NATO reporting name SS-18 Satan) missile.
So far all of Russia’s recent ICBM projects, both sea-launched (Bulava) and ground-based (Topol-M, Yars), have been solid fuel.
Karakayev said the new ICBM will have a launch mass of around 100 tons with a better payload-launch weight ratio than in a solid fuel missile.
Such ICBMs can only be deployed in silos.
The Russian Defense Ministry previously said that unless the United States abandons its plans to create a missile defense system in Europe, Russia will take counter measures, including the building of a new heavy liquid-propellant missile.
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- drussianAvanguard?06:49, 04/09/2012Russia tested the avanguard ICBM earlier this year, even though it failed. I supposed its just continued R&D of this unless they take a drastic move such as in the production of Bulava SLBM with an entirely new missile. So does this mean the end of the Avanguard project or will it be continued?
