R-5 Pobeda

R-5
R-5 on display at the Zhytomyr Korolyov Museum
Type Theatre ballistic missile
Medium-range ballistic missile
Place of origin USSR
Service history
In service 1956-1967
Specifications
Weight 29,100 kg
Length 20.75 m
Diameter 1.65 m
Warhead 60 \ 80 kt , 300 kt , 1 Mt (or more) thermonuclear warhead

Engine RD-103M, 8D52
Wingspan 3.452 m
Propellant Liquid (92% Ethyl Alcohol/water solution & LOX)
Operational
range
1,200 km (750 mi)[1]
Guidance
system
inertial guidance plus radio command guidance

The R-5 Pobeda[2] (Побе́да, "Victory") was a theatre ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The R-5M version was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-3 Shyster and carried the GRAU index 8K51.

The R-5 was originally a development of OKB-1 as a single-stage missile with a detachable warhead reentry vehicle. The R-5M was a nuclear armed missile – the first nuclear missile to be deployed by the Soviet Union – with greater payload and weight but better reliability than its predecessor. The R-5M gave the Soviet Union the ability to target many strategic targets in Europe. The R-5M entered service on 21 May 1956 (retired in 1967), and in 1959 was installed at Vogelsang, Zehdenick and Fürstenberg/Havel in East Germany - the first Soviet nuclear missile bases outside the USSR.[3]

R-5 was additionally an oft-reported alternate designation for the K-5 (missile) air-to-air missile.

Specification

  • Propellant liquid
  • Range 1,200 kilometres (750 mi)
  • Period of storage after fueling: 1 hour[4]
  • Time of preparation 2.5 hours
  • Guidance: inertial guidance plus radio command guidance
  • Warhead and Yield 60 \ 80 kt, 300 kt, 1 Mt (or more) thermonuclear warhead

Operators

 Soviet Union

See also

References

  1. http://www.nasic.af.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=F2VLcKSmCTE%3d&portalid=19
  2. Johnston's Archive - SOVIET/RUSSIAN MISSILE DESIGNATIONS
  3. Stephen Evans (25 October 2012). "A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw". BBC News.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2015.


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