"Well done" in American - unsuccessful debut
At the early stage of the implementation of the “Minuteman” program, it was planned to create and put into service intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) of this family of two types of basing - stationary ...
America will create its "Satan" to protect against "rogue countries"
According to the current views of the military-political leadership of the United States, the ground component of the strategic nuclear forces is the main component of the American nuclear triad ...
About engines for intercontinental ballistic missiles
The arsenal of strategic nuclear forces of Russia consists of intercontinental ballistic missiles of various types, which have certain differences. Among other things, similar products differ in type ...
Russian Nuclear Forces: Mace
The tension in political circles, the press and the debate network about the fate of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles is incredibly high ...
The forerunner of the "Union" and "Topol"
The launch of the first ballistic missile at the State Central Test Site Kapustin Yar was a breakthrough into a completely new field of science and technology and marked the beginning of the test ...
The system of retaliatory strike "Perimeter"
The domestic system "Perimeter", known in the United States and Western Europe as the "Dead Hand", is a complex of automatic control of a massive counter-nuclear strike ....
How SKB Makeev's designers successfully caught up with Lockheed engineers
Today JSC “State Rocket Center named after academician V.P. Makeev” (JSC “SRC Makeyev”) is the leading developer of solid-fuel and liquid-propellant missile systems with strategic ...
60 years ago, the first successful launch of the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile P-7 took place
21 August 1957, exactly 60 years ago, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the P-7, was successfully launched from the Baikonur space center. This Soviet rocket was the first ...
Five famous missiles of the Soviet Union
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima 6 August 1945, the forever divided the twentieth century, and with it the whole history of mankind into two unequal epochs: pre-nuclear and nuclear. The symbol of the second was, alas, ...
Five little-known facts about the legendary "Katyusha"
The combat vehicle of rocket artillery BM-13 is much better known by the legendary name "Katyusha". And, as it happens with any legend, its history over the decades has not just been mythologized, but also ...
The missile potential of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Part 3)
In addition to the development of ballistic missiles in Iran, a lot of attention is paid to anti-ship missile systems. A ballistic missile was created on the basis of the Fateh-110 operational tactical complex ...
The missile potential of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Part 2)
Despite the fact that the United States and other Western countries supplied the most advanced weapons during the years of the Shah’s rule, by the start of the Iran-Iraq war there were no missile systems in the Islamic Republic ...
Hey, "Barguzin", move the shaft, "Well done" to swim nearby. About the new systems put in a word
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin recently in an interview with RIA Novosti made a statement on the progress of work on the creation of new systems of Russian weapons. In particular, about ICBMs ...
The missile potential of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Part 1)
In the comments to the recent series of articles on the Iranian air defense system, the readers of the Military Review expressed the wish that a similar review on Iranian missiles be published, ...
P-11: First on the battlefield and at sea (part of 2)
The rocket, which laid the foundation for domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific-engineering experiment ...
P-11: First on the battlefield and at sea (part of 1)
The rocket, which laid the foundation for domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific-engineering experiment ...
P-9: hopelessly late excellence (part of 2)
Through what thorns the creators of the last oxygen intercontinental rocket of the Soviet Union had to go ...
P-9: hopelessly late excellence (part of 1)
Through what thorns the creators of the last oxygen intercontinental rocket of the Soviet Union had to go ...
RT-15: the history of the creation of the first self-propelled ballistic missile of the USSR (part 2)
But in April, 1961, no one has yet thought about such a development - just as about the fact that the chairman of the Council of Chief Designers for the RT-2 rocket project, academician Sergey Korolev, was left ...
UR-100: as General Secretary Khrushchev chose the most massive rocket strategic missile (part 2)
Thus, the fate of the future “Soviet Minitman” —the first light intercontinental ballistic missile of the ampulne type in the history of the USSR — was decided. The word of the then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU ...
RT-15: the history of the creation of the first self-propelled ballistic missile of the USSR (part 1)
The mobile combat missile system 15P696 developed in Leningrad became the forerunner of the legendary "Pioneer" ...
UR-100: as General Secretary Khrushchev chose the most massive rocket strategic missile (part 1)
Why the development of "weave" gave OKB-52 Vladimir Chelomey, who had not previously engaged in intercontinental ballistic missiles ...
Rocket R-5M: the firstborn of the nuclear-missile era
2 February 1956, for the first time in world history, launched a ballistic nuclear-powered missile. In the history of the domestic armed forces there were two famous operations that bore the name ...
News about the modernization of the missile R-30 "Bulava"
New details of the planned development of strategic nuclear forces have become known. The development of means of delivery of nuclear weapons continues, for which this time it is proposed to modernize ...