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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The rocket, which laid the foundation for domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific-engineering experiment ...

The rocket, which laid the foundation for domestic operational-tactical and underwater missile systems, was born as a result of a scientific-engineering experiment ...

Through what thorns the creators of the last oxygen intercontinental rocket of the Soviet Union had to go ...

Through what thorns the creators of the last oxygen intercontinental rocket of the Soviet Union had to go ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mobile combat missile system 15P696 developed in Leningrad became the forerunner of the legendary "Pioneer" ...

Why the development of "weave" gave OKB-52 Vladimir Chelomey, who had not previously engaged in intercontinental ballistic missiles ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the time of the collapse of the Union in the Strategic Missile Forces there were six armies and 28 divisions. The number of missiles on alert reached its peak in the 1985 year (2500 missiles, of which 1398 are intercontinental). Wherein...

The Armed Forces of Russia have a separate branch of the military, which reports directly to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the Strategic Missile Forces ...

In 1971, France adopted its first ground-based medium-range ballistic missile S-2. By the time the mine launchers were completed and the start ...

In the mid-fifties of the last century, France began to create its own strategic nuclear forces. In 1962, the decision was made to create a ground component of the “nuclear triad” and ...

In 1974, the French armed forces began mastering the first domestic self-propelled tactical missile complex Pluton. This system carried a ballistic missile with a range ...

In the mid-fifties, France began to create its own nuclear forces. Over the next few decades, a number of complexes of various classes and ...

Currently, in the interests of the strategic missile forces, a new project of a heavy-duty intercontinental ballistic missile is being developed. The result of current work should be ...

In 1987, the USSR and the USA signed the Treaty on the Elimination of Medium and Small-Range Missiles, which prohibited the development, construction and operation of complexes with a firing range from 500 to 5500 km ....

At the very end of 1965, the tactical complex of extended range 9K76 Temp-S was adopted for armament of strategic missile forces. Soon the country's leadership accepted ...

Since the late fifties, Soviet industry has been working to create promising operational-tactical missile systems with a range of up to several hundred kilometers. The first ...

One of the main objectives of the early projects of tactical missile systems was to increase the firing range. The first systems of this class could fire targets at ranges of no more than a few ...