 | Russian Strategic Missile Forces Rocket strategic forces is the main component of strategic nuclear forces of Russia. Are intended for nuclear restraint and defeat of strategic objects of the opponent. On arms of Rocket strategic forces there are intercontinental ballistic missiles of mobile and stationary basing with nuclear warheads. |
 | The Nedelin Rocket Disaster The Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM in 1960. The prototype missile exploded on the launch pad, killing over 100 military personnel, including the Strategic Rocket Forces Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin in the world's worst rocketry disaster. Full Story here: http://sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=90 |
 | Russian military :::::::READ THIS BEFORE POSTING:::::: Russian military The Forces of the Russian Federation (UTC) (Russian: Вооружённые Си́лы Росси́йской Федера́ции Transliteration: Vooruzhyónniye síly Rossíyskoy Federátsii) is the military of Russia, established after the break-up of the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1992 Boris Yeltsin signed a decree establishing the Russian Ministry of Defence and placing all Soviet Armed Forces troops on the territory of the RSFSR under Russian Federation control.[1] The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces is the President of the Russian Federation (currently Vladimir Putin). Military manpower (Source mostly CIA World Factbook) Military age 18 years of age Availability males age 18-49: 35,247,049 (2005 est.) Fit for military service males age 18-49: 21,000,000 (2006 est.)[4] Reaching military age annually 1,500,000 (2005 est.) Active troops 1,037,000[5] (Ranked 5th) Total troops 3,796,100[citation needed] (Ranked 5th) Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world.[21] Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces controls its land-based nuclear warheads, while the Navy controls the submarine based missiles and the Air Force the air based warheads. Russia's nuclear warheads are deployed in four areas: 1 - Land based immobile (silos), like SS-18 Satan. 2 - Land-based mobile, like SS-27 Topol M. 3 - Submarine based, like SS-N-30 Bulava. 4 - Air-based warheads of Russia's Air Forces strategic bomber force The challenges of carrying out reforms and modernizing have been magnified by difficult economic conditions in Russia, which have resulted in reduced defence spending. This has led to training cutbacks, wage reductions, and severe shortages of housing for other social amenities for military personnel, with a consequent lowering of morale, cohesion, and fighting effectiveness. In 2005, Russia's expenditures on new military weapons surpassed overseas sales, which were about US$6.5 billion. For 2006, there was approximately $9 billion budgeted for military equipment purchases. |
 | RUSSIA & GEORGIA. ESCALATING CRISIS aug. 28, 2008. (part 4) Aug. 28 - RUSSIA TODAY: Russia has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. The country's Defence Ministry has reported that it hit the target on the testing ground in the far eastern region of Kamchatka. The Ministry claims the weapon is capable of bypassing the most advanced missile defence systems. Although it has been on stand-by for 21 years, the Ministry said the weapon has shown it can effectively hit high-security facilities. Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29622 _______________________________________ Aug. 28 - REUTERS: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday. "The launch was specially tasked to test the missile's capability to avoid ground-based detection systems," said Colonel Alexander Vovk of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. Washington and Warsaw formally signed a deal last week to station elements of a U.S. missile defence shield in Poland, a move that has aggravated Russian-Western tensions already raw from Moscow's intervention in Georgia. Russia has heaped scorn on the missile defence system, which the U.S. says is aimed at Iran, and through its Foreign Ministry last week vowed "to react, and not only through diplomatic protests." The RS-12M Topol, called the SS-25 Sickle by NATO, has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry one 550-kiloton warhead. Last October former Russian President Vladimir Putin, now the prime minister, said the country was working on new types of nuclear weapons as part of a "grandiose" plan to boost the country's defenses. "As part of the commander in chief's order there will be a few more launches of this particular missile before the end of the year," Vovk said. Russia has reconfigured earlier Topol models to expand their life-span to 23 years and has been evaluating the reliability of flight stabilizers that allow the missile to fly to a target in a manner similar to cruise missiles. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLS60130720080828?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&sp=true |
 | David Stumpf Comments On the Titan II Rocket Family The Titan rocket family was established in October 1955, when the Air Force awarded the Glenn L. Martin Company a contract to build an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It became known as the Titan I, the nation's first two-stage ICBM and first underground silo-based ICBM. The Martin Company recognized that the Titan I could be further improved and presented a proposal to the U.S. Air Force for an improved version. It would carry a larger warhead over a greater range with more accuracy and could be fired more quickly. The Martin company received a contract for the new missile, designated SM-68B Titan II, in June 1960. The Titan II was 50% heavier than the Titan I, with a longer first stage and a larger diameter second stage. The Titan II also used storable propellants, Aerozine 50 and dinitrogen tetroxide. The Titan I, whose liquid oxygen oxidizer must be loaded immediately before launching, had to be raised from its silo and fueled before launch. The use of storable propellants enabled the Titan II to be launched within 60 seconds directly from within its silo. Their hypergolic nature made them dangerous to handle; a fuel leak could (and did) lead to explosions. The first flight of the Titan II was in December 1961 and the missile, now designated LGM-25C, reached initial operating capability in October 1963. The Titan II contained one W-53 nuclear warhead in a Mark 6 re-entry vehicle with a range of 9,325 miles (15,000 km). The W-53 had a yield of 9 megatons. This warhead was guided to its target using an inertial guidance unit. The 54 deployed Titan IIs formed the backbone of America's strategic deterrent force. Ten Titan IIs were flown in NASA's Gemini manned space program in the mid-1960s. It was also supposed to be used for a nuclear weapon that the United States claimed had a 35 megaton capability. This would have made this warhead one of the most powerful ever, and in terms of power to weight ratio, advantageous over the B-41 nuclear bomb by almost double. Because of the volatility of the liquid fuel, and the problem with aging seals, the Titan II missiles had been scheduled to be retired beginning in 1971. After two accidents, deactivation of the Titan II ICBM system finally began in July 1982. The last Titan II missile, located at Silo 373-8 near Judsonia, Arkansas, was deactivated on May 5, 1987. The deactivated missiles are now in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. The Titan II ICBM was the most powerful on-standby nuclear missile in the U.S. military arsenal. A single missile still rests in its silo (without the warhead) and is open to the public as the Titan Missile Museum at Sahuarita, Arizona. |
 | RUSSIA (MAGOG) TEST TOPOL ICBM AUG 28 2008 and RS-20 "SATAN" rocket on AUG 29, 2008 - two in a row !!! RUSSIA (MAGOG) TEST TOPOL ICBM AUG 28 2008 and RS-20 "SATAN" rocket on AUG 29, 2008 - two in a row !!!Russia's Topol ICBM hits target with new warhead in test launch RIA Novosti 28/08/2008 16:35 MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Topol strategic missile test-launched on Thursday from the Plesetsk space center has successfully hit a designated target on the Kamchatka peninsula, a Strategic Missile Forces spokesman said. A joint team from SMF and Space Forces fired an RS-12M (SS-25 Sickle) ICBM at 14.36 Moscow time (10.36 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in a launch that tested not only the performance characteristics of the missile but also the capabilities of a new warhead to penetrate strong missile defenses. "An experimental warhead hit a target at a testing range on the Kamchatka peninsula with high precision, demonstrating its capability to deliver pinpoint strikes on well-defended targets," Col. Alexander Vovk said. The missile, whose service life was extended to 21 years last year, covered a distance of about 6,000 kilometers (over 3,700 miles) before it hit the target. "The performance data gathered during the test launch will be used to increase the effectiveness of future Russian mobile ballistic missile units," Vovk said, adding that the Topol ICBM remains the core of the Russian mobile strategic missile forces. Russia has been enhancing the performance characteristics of its ballistic missiles in response to U.S. plans to place a missile-defense shield in central Europe near Russian borders. Vovk said that judging from experience the most economical and quickly achievable countermeasures against the deployment of missile-defense systems are the so-called asymmetrical measures. "These measures include enhanced "stealth" capability, a variability of flight trajectory and the use of warheads capable of penetrating any missile shield," he said. The RS-12M Topol has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry a single 550-kiloton nuclear warhead. |
 | Spectacular Rocket Chemtrail October 2, 1999 HQ Stereo sound link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpD9uCmEawQ&fmt=18 This old video footage and series of still images document the chemtrail left by a modified Minuteman II intercept missile. The missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of a strategic inbound target intercept test (Star Wars). The resulting plume went many miles into the upper atmosphere where the movement of the atmosphere twisted and distorted it into a very weird shape. Even though it was dark at ground level, the plume was so high up that the sun was still illuminating it, causing it to glow and refract the sun's rays into a rainbow of colors, visible across much of the southwestern United States for several hours. The plume is composed of aluminum oxide, aluminum chloride, water vapor and nitrogen gas, plus other trace elements. This is typical of most solid rocket propellant burns, including the Space Shuttle. |
 | Topol-M SS-27 Missile ICBM The single-warhead Topol-M is an advanced version of the silo-based and mobile Topol intercontinental ballistic missile. The solid-propellant three- stage Topol-M missile complex, with a standardized (silo and mobile) missile, is to become the foundation of the Russian strategic nuclear forces in the 21st century. It is planned to accommodate Topol-M both on self-propelled launchers as well as in silos. High survivability of the mobile complex is achieved by the capability of offroad movement, of a continuous change in location and of a missile launch from any point along the movement route. The Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering (MIT) State Enterprise is the only plant in Russia building such missiles today. The modernized 45-ton Topol-M is the first strategic missile to be built by Russia without the participation of Ukraine and CIS countries. The flight and design testing of the Topol-M was successfully completed in 1995, and joint flight-testing is continuing, leading to a decision to commence series production. All the launches have been a success, but serial production has not started due to a shortage of funds. On 08 July 1997 the fourth launch of a Topol-M ICBM was successfully made from the Strategic Missile Forces' Plesetsk State Test Site within the framework of joint flight-testing. Work on the new Topol-M ICBM is lagging seriously behind the initial timetable. Defense state order financing for the next decade provides that by 2003 there will be on the order of 250-300 Topol-M missiles in service. A total of 1.5 trillion [old] rubles were included in the 1997 budget for the development of the Topol-M missile complex. The Russian Missile Troops are permitted to have 300 Topol RS-12M mobile missiles under the START II Treaty, and the RVSN must acquire two Topol-M regiments annually up to 2001, which will cost 3.7 billion new rubles. A total of R700 billion would be required to place 450 Topol-M missiles in service by 2005 to maintain parity under START II. But the present 55 percent funding will permit production of at the very most 10-15 missiles at this facility each year year. As a result the Strategic Missile Troops will have a total of approximately 350-400 ICBM warheads, not the 800-900 which are permited within the framework of the START II Treaty. On 15 April 1998 Acting Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko approved a schedule of monthly budget appropriations for the Topol-M, which he noted would make up the core of Russia's strategic nuclear forces. In December 1997, the first two Topol-M systems were put on alert for a trial period with the Taman Division at Tatischevo in the Saratov region. As of late July 1998 two more Topol-M launch sites were completed and were awaiting acceptance trials. The Topol-M missile system is being commissioned in the Russian strategic nuclear forces' grouping regardless of whether heavy missiles are stood down from combat alert duty or not. It is intended that the Topol-M ICBM grouping will comprise an equal number of mobile and silo-launched missiles. Some 90 of the 360 launch silos vacated by the RS-20 ICBM's, which are being stood down from combat alert duty, need to be converted for the latter. Apart from Saratov Oblast the Topol-M systems will be deployed in Valday, the southern Urals, and the Altay. The Topol-M missiles could be transformed into missiles with multiple reentry vehicles [MIRV's], since their throw weight allows accommodating 3-4 warheads on a missile. The warheads could be taken from some of those ground-based and naval missiles which will be withdrawn from the order of battle in coming years. |
 | Getting your butt handed to you in War Front: Turning Point Here's what happens when the Russians build a huge force of Katyusha rocket trucks in War Front: Turning Point, an upcoming RTS for PC. Note - this is from a demo build, and I was using fraps, so there's some stutter in there that shouldn't be in the final game. This game's competing with Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars and Strategic Commander. |
 | RUSSIA РОССИЯ (MAGOG МАГОГ) LAND OF GOG, GOGLAND, ГОГЛАНД, ГОГ [EZEKIEL 38-39] 'SATAN' ROCKET & TOPOL ROCKET ICBM LAUNCHED IN 2 DAYS IN A ROW ON AUGUST 28 & AUGUST 29, 2008 ['The Omen' OST "Ave Satani"] ГОГА И МАГОГА RUSSIA РОССИЯ (MAGOG МАГОГ) LAND OF GOG ГОГа [EZEKIEL 38-39] 'SATAN' ROCKET & TOPOL ROCKET ICBM LAUNCHED IN 2 DAYS IN A ROW ON AUGUST 28 & AUGUST 29, 2008. THE EZEKIEL SITUATION CONTINUE TO BUILD UP. Credits: BIBLE BOOK OF EZEKIEL Ch. 38 & 39; HTB (NTV) News; VESTI (ВЕСТИ)NEWS; Max McLean; Red Army National Choir(Soviet Union National Anthem); www.GlobalSecurity.Org; Ave Satani, OST 'The Omen'.RUSSIA (MAGOG) TEST TOPOL ICBM AUG 28 2008 and RS-20 "SATAN" rocket on AUG 29, 2008 - two in a row !!!Russia's Topol ICBM hits target with new warhead in test launch RIA Novosti 28/08/2008 16:35 MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian Topol strategic missile test-launched on Thursday from the Plesetsk space center has successfully hit a designated target on the Kamchatka peninsula, a Strategic Missile Forces spokesman said. The missile, whose service life was extended to 21 years last year, covered a distance of about 6,000 kilometers (over 3,700 miles) before it hit the target. The RS-12M Topol has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry a single 550-kiloton nuclear warhead. ======================================================================================== RUSSIAN (MAGOG) 'SATAN' ROCKET @ 2.7 the speed of sound. RUSSIAN (MAGOG) 'SATAN' ROCKET @ 2.7 the speed of sound.(AUG 28-29, 2008) Russia [RUS, ROSH, MAGOG per Ezekiel 38] wants to show to the planet that still capable as the once Soviet Union to inflict Nuclear attack anywhere on Earth. From the Kosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan [TUBAL per Ezekiel 38] Russia [RUS, ROSH, MAGOG per Ezekiel 38] launched on Aug. 29, 2008 the converted ICBM RS-20 {RS-36 - wikipedia}, upgraded from SS-18 with new Russian rocket engine booster 'Dnepr,'(as the river Dnieper) (NATO classification 'SATAN' as it can cause massive damage capable to carry up to 18,000 pounds of nuclear bomb material equivalent of 1,410 nuclear warheads, each nuclear warhead many times as powerful as Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki, and very dirty in terms of radiation as Russians do not have clean radiation protocol as NATO nations does), Russia [RUS, ROSH, MAGOG per Ezekiel 38] have at least 150 more) with five German 'RapidEye' satellites on board. The Spacecraft is designed for remote sensing and monitoring the Earth from orbit altitude of about 620 kilometers for global monitoring the Earth's surface in USA and Europe. (in lay's language - to spy on 'the West'.) It can arrived from the other side of the planet in less than 30 minutes but if placed in submarine or Venezuela or Cuba or a Tupolev Bear Propeller bomber then it could reach USA and/or Europe in 10 -15 minutes, or even less. It has a speed of up to 2.7 the speed of sound or 7.9km/s or 2,079 mph or 34.65 miles per minute or just over half mile on each second as you try to run for your life. Alexander Chulkov, the Ministry of Defense said that these RS-20 ('SATAN' by NATO classification) launchers will be used until 2015 and stand on protecting our borders," .NOTES: These weapon is consider FIRST STRIKE WEAPON (to attack fortified USA Nuclear Silos which stores our nukes). Supposedly 90 silos are active out of 186 with some in Kazakhstan [TUBAL per Ezekiel 38]. 204 of these missiles were deployed on Russian territory and 104 in Kazakhstan of which 254 in total should have been destroyed (and/or dismantled - not clear, conflicting sources) by 2003 per START II Treaty & Sam Nunn & Richard Lugar Program. If they are dismantled that means that they could be "MANTLE or ASSEMBLE" once again. They can be carried also in Tu-95 [Bear, Tupolev Aircrafts] heavy bombers as the old Soviet Union did. It was manufactured originally in UKRAINE. (today enemy of Russia). |
 | Messerschmitt Me163B Komet Me163 displayed at The Museum of Flight East Fortune Scotland U.K. and RAF Museum Cosford under restoration The only rocket propelled interceptor ever to be used operationally, the Me163 Komet was deployed by the Luftwaffe in a desperate attempt to combat the Allied strategic bombing offensive during the closing stages of the Second World War. The Me163 stemmed from a research programme conducted during the late 1930s and flight trials of the first powered prototypes began at the Peenemunde West rocket test centre in the latter months of 1941. Although the Me163's Walther rocket motor endowed the aircraft with a maximum speed far in excess of any other fighter of the period, the volatile reactants employed often caused the aircraft to explode. The sole Luftwaffe unit to become operational with the Me163 was Jagdgeschwader (Fighter Wing) 400. Tasked with protecting the vital Leuna oil refineries near Leipzig, Me163s from this unit first engaged Eighth US Army Air Force B17 Flying Fortresses on 16 August 1944. By the end of the war nine Allied aircraft had been shot down by JG 400; however, severe fuel shortages and technical problems hampered operations and the unit suffered heavy casualties. Limited by its short range, lack of endurance and unreliability, the Me163 represented little more than a futile, if ingenious and courageous, attempt to wrest control of the air over Germany from the Allies. |
 | Regulus cruise missile THIS FILM IS PUBLIC DOMAIN Regulus cruise missile At the end of Second World War America found herself with a strong submarine force of little strategic importance. Based on the design of the German V1 rocket, the Regulus guided cruise missile program ushered in a new era that changed the strategic role of the submarine forever. Development of the Regulus Cruise Missile SSM-N-8 began in 1947 by the United States Navy and Chance Vought Aircraft. This unmanned turbojet powered vehicle system was capable of delivering a 3000 pound 40-50 kiloton W5 or 2800 pound 1-2 megaton W27 thermonuclear warhead within a range of 500 nautical miles. Today the Regulus is all but forgotten ... a historical footnote to its successors - the Polaris, Poseidon and Trident ballistic missiles that could be launched from submerged nuclear powered submarines. Regulus was also critical in paving the way for the development of today's sophisticated Tomahawk cruise missile, and served as an important nuclear deterrent in the early days of the Cold War and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regulus was first deployed by the US Navy in 1955 in the Pacific onboard the cruiser USS Los Angeles (CA-135). By 1956 the surface launched Regulus was deployed onboard specially designed diesel powered submarines. The USS TUNNY (SSG-282) and USS BARBERO (SSG-317) were our Nations first nuclear deterrent patrol submarines. They were joined by three additional Regulus submarines, USS GRAYBACK (SSG-574), USS GROWLER (SSG-577), and the nuclear powered USS HALIBUT (SSGN-587). Regulus submarine nuclear deterrent patrols ceased in 1964. A second generation supersonic Regulus II Cruise Missile was under development to succeed Regulus I with a range of 1,200 nautical miles and a speed of Mach 2. However, even though testing of Regulus II was successful, the program was canceled for budgetary reasons prior to going operational in favor of the Polaris ballistic nuclear missile. |
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