23 July 1985 for the first time was launched on combat duty by a mobile soil missile system "Topol"
In February, 1983, the famous PGRK Topol passed its first tests. The first test flight of the rocket was conducted at the Plesetsk 8 cosmodrome in February 1983 of the year. The first launches were made from modified stationary type mines in which RT-2P missiles were previously based. All launches were successful, except for one. The tests continued until December 23 1987, during which time a total of 70 Topol launches were made. In 1984, the construction and equipment of sites for the installation of combat systems began, the patrol routes of the Topol mobile missile systems, service areas, obsolete types of missiles, in turn, were removed from the positions. After successful completion of the first series of tests by the middle of 1985 (1985 test launches took place in April 15), the PT-2М rocket was put into service, and on July 23 1985 in Yoshkar-Ola entered the first regiment of the PGRK on combat duty. At the same time, tests related to the combat control system continued. Missile tests ended only 23 December 1987 of the year, and test activities of the entire missile complex ended only in December 1988 of the year. That is why the final decision on the adoption of the Topol complex was made only in December 1988 of the year, that is, three and a half years after the start of the actual operation. At the time of the signing of the START-1 Treaty in 1991, the USSR had at its disposal 288 Topol missile systems. After the signing of START-1, the work on the improvement of these systems was continued. At the end of 1996, the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation deployed 360 combat units to the Topol PGRK. Since then, at least one control launch of a Topol rocket from the Plesetsk test site has been carried out every year. During testing and operation, several dozen missile test and test launches were performed. All of them were successful.After the collapse of the Soviet Union 81 combat unit PGRK Topol remained on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. 13 August 1993, the withdrawal of the Topol PGRK grouping from Belarus began, and it was completed on November 27 1996. According to July 2006, 243 mobile Topol missile systems are in service. They are located in the areas of settlements Teikovo, Yoshkar-Ola, Yurya, Nizhny Tagil, Novosibirsk, Kansk, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Vypolzovo. An interesting fact is that the Topol complex is the first Soviet strategic ballistic missile, whose name was declassified in the Soviet press, in an article that refutes the accusations of the American side that Russia seems to be testing a new missile system in violation of the Arms Control Treaty.
29 November 2005 of the year was carried out training launch of a ballistic missile RS-12M "Topol" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on the target at the Kamchatka test site Kura. By that time, the rocket had been in service for 20 for years. This was the first case in practice, not only of domestic, but also of world rocket production, when such a complex launch of a rocket, which had been operated for so long, was successfully implemented.
Battle shooting "Topol" continue and pass more often. Over the past year there have been three successful missile tests. This refers to the launch of Topol from the Plesetsk 3 September 2011 of the year, the November shooting and missile tests that took place at the Kapustin Yar testing ground recently, 7 June 2012 of the year. The tasks of the test run were completed in full. In the course of the June tests, missilemen received information on the various parameters of the Topol’s work, which can be used in the development of new effective means of overcoming the missile defense system of a potential enemy.
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