RT-2PM Topol
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intercontinental ballistic missile
Key facts
- Type
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Place of origin
- Soviet Union
- In service
- 1985–2023
- Used by
- Russian Strategic Rocket Forces
- Designer
- Alexander Nadiradze ( Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology ), continued after his death by Boris N. Lapygin.
- Manufacturer
- Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
- Mass
- 50,100 kg (110,500 lb)
- Length
- 23.5 m (77 ft)
- Diameter
- 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in)
- Warhead
- 1 x 800 kt or 1 x 1 Mt
- Engine
- Three-stage Solid-fuel rocket
- Operational range
- 11,000 km (6,800 mi)
- Maximum speed of vehicle or missile span
- approx. 7.4 kilometres per second (27,000 km/h; 17,000 mph; Mach 22)
- Guidance system
- Inertial, autonomous
- Accuracy
- 200-900m m CEP
- Launch platform
- Road-mobile TEL
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- intercontinental ballistic missile
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
- Designed by
- Alexander Nadiradze
- Image
- RT-2PM.PNG
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- Commons category
- RT-2PM Topol
- NATO reporting name
- Sickle
- service entry
- 1994-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
MAZ-7917 TEL vehicle The RT-2PM Topol (Russian: РТ-2ПМ Тополь ("Poplar"); NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle; GRAU designation: 15Ж58 ("15Zh58"); START I designation: RS-12M Topol) was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed in the Soviet Union and in service with Russia's Strategic Missile Troops. As of 2014, Russia planned to replace all RT-2PM ICBMs with versions of Topol-M. In December 2023, the last Topol regiment was taken off combat duty.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RT-2PM Topol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.