RT-2PM2 Topol-M
Sign in to saveAlso known as Topol-M, RS-12M1, RS-12M2, RT-2PM2, SS-27 Sickle-B, Sickle-B
intercontinental ballistic missile
Key facts
- Type
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Place of origin
- Russia
- In service
- December 2000–present
- Used by
- Russian Strategic Rocket Forces
- Designer
- Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
- Manufacturer
- Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
- Produced
- December 1994–2010
- Mass
- 47,200 kg (104,000 lb)
- Length
- 22.7 m (74 ft)
- Diameter
- 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Warhead
- 1 x 1.0 Mt
- Engine
- Three-stage Solid-fuel rocket
- Operational range
- 11,000 km (6,800 mi)
- Maximum speed of vehicle or missile span
- 7,520 metres per second (27,100 km/h; 16,800 mph; Mach 22)
- Guidance system
- Inertial with GLONASS
- Accuracy
- 200 m CEP
- Launch platform
- Silo, road-mobile TEL
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
MZKT-79221 Transporter erector launcher carrying missile container during rehearsals for the 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade. The RT-2PM2 Topol-M (Russian: РТ-2ПМ2 «Тополь-М», NATO reporting name: SS-27 "Sickle B", other designations: SS-27 Mod 1, RS-12M1, RS-12M2, formerly incorrectly RT-2UTTKh) is one of the most recent intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed by Russia, and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was developed from the RT-2PM Topol mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.
In its Russian designation РТ stands for "ракета твердотопливная", raketa tverdotoplivnaya ("solid fuel rocket"), while УТТХ – for "улучшенные тактико-технические характеристики", uluchshenniye taktiko-tekhnicheskie kharakteristiki ("improved tactical and technical characteristics"). "Topol" (тополь) in Russian means "white poplar". It is designed and produced exclusively by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, and built at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RT-2PM2 Topol-M” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.