R-5 Pobeda

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.

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
Mass	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 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]

By the end of 1956, 24 launchers were deployed, with a final total of 48 produced by the end of 1957; around 200 missiles were built. The R-5M was deployed in brigades of six launchers each or regiments of four launchers each. The basic field unit was a division, each having two batteries with a single launcher. Brigades and regiments had deployments in Kapustin Yar, Kaliningrad, East Germany (from January to September 1959), Volgograd Oblast, Lithuania, the Russian Far East, and Ukraine.[4]

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