Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (Nuclear Triad-Warheads)

Austin wrote:FAS: Status of World Nuclear Forces

As part of the Strategic Missile Forces. It conducted a large planned work. Conducted deployment, setting into service of new complexes. Yarsov has four versions with different letters and numbers - the two are in service, in two trials. In the Sarmat. Occurring problems are solved control, have been successfully test firing. Conducted successful trials throwing Barguzin. Frontier is ready for deployment. Vanguard alive. Unfortunately, there were emergency launches, but it is testing a new, and this is normal. The reasons are eliminated, measures are being taken. One of the tests - the same "mysterious explosion". Conducted a series of exercises and training, improve cooperation with air defense, PDSS and other subcontractors. Special wheeled chassis MZKT-79291 with the wheel formula 12x12 development of "Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant" (MZKT) (c) of "Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant"


As part of the sailors. Worked through operation of Mace. Work is continuing on its deployment. Makeevtsy this year offered an alternative Bulava - a rocket with mass-dimensional characteristics similar to mace, but with increased power available and devoid of "shortcomings" of the Sineva in the start. It increases production of rockets Caliber plants operate around the clock. The task - ensuring massive naval cruise missiles. Zircon is underway testing until all successfully. The development of two new "minerals" has replaced the zirconium. One - of evolutionary development, the second - the revolutionary.

The aircraft part. Work on upgrading the existing fleet of vehicles and the production of HSA for him. Created several promising cruise missiles, in addition to the X-101/102. We demonstrate the appearance of the PAK DA, work is underway to purge.

Large works are in the field of hypersonic. There is a perfection of materials and technologies, as well as aspects of combat employment, the definition of the role and place of hypersonic weapons in weapons system. GEO create patterns of different classes with a ramjet engine, and with the other principles of acceleration.

The big shift took place this year in terms of "exotic". Created and shown samples of weapons using the EMR, the laser radiation and a number of other principles. Several systems taken into service. Very much has been done in terms of EW - complexes of more than a dozen different applications. Currently, work is underway to assess their effectiveness in the interaction with the covers up their forces and means. Showed a special "interceptor drone." The tests will take place in the field at the beginning of next year.

Ukrainian state long sought and finally achieved attention to themselves Strategic Forces.

The United States is similar to trying to attract the attention of the forces and means of ITV. While they did not use against the United States, but the constant baseless accusations "of Russian hacking" might "wake up" and the integral part of our Armed Forces. If we introduced sanctions against us on spurious grounds, and then we can really start to engage in what we are accused.

In general, the work is carried out intensively, a lot of work, the work of promising and interesting.

Happy New Year! Peace in the New Year, kindness, intellect, fruitful work, the implementation of the conceived, happiness and health!


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Current status

In January 2016 Russia was estimated to have 525 strategic launchers and about 1800 nuclear warheads. In its September 2015 New START data exchange Russia reported 526 deployed launchers with 1648 New START-accountable nuclear warheads.

The Strategic Rocket Forces were estimated to have 299 operational missile systems that include missiles that can carry 902 warheads. These include 46 R-36M2 (SS-18) missiles, 30 UR-100NUTTH (SS-19) missiles, 72 road-mobile Topol (SS-25) systems, 60 silo-based and 18 road-mobile Topol-M (SS-27) systems, and 73 RS-24 missiles [SS-29]].

[Strategic Rocket Forces...]

The Russian strategic fleet includes 10 operational strategic missile submarines with SLBMs, whose missiles can carry 160 missiles with 704 nuclear warheads. Five operational Project 667BDRM submarines are based in the Northern Fleet. These submarines carry 80 R-29RM (SS-N-23) launchers. One Project 955 submarine with 16 Bulava SLBMs on board is also based in the Northern Fleet. The only remaining Pacific Fleet base hosts two 667BDR (Delta III) submarines, which carry 36 R-29R (SS-N-18) missiles and two Project 955 submarines with 32 Bulava SLBMs.

[Strategic fleet...]

The Russian strategic aviation consists of 66 bombers that carry an estimated 200 long-range cruise missiles and bombs. The bombers are 11 Tu-160 (Blackjack) and 55 Tu-95MS (Bear H). The bombers can carry various modifications of the Kh-55 (AS-15) and Kh-101 cruise missiles and gravity bombs.

[Strategic aviation...]

In November 2015 Russia launched the first satellite of the new-generation early-warning system, EKS. The satellite is currently undergoing tests.

[Early warning and defense...]

[January 12, 2016]

eridan wrote:Is there an alternative source to numbers of Russian nuclear arsenal, other than FAS or new START treaty numbers?

More precisely, is there a source mentioning number of non-deployed ICBM and SLBM, as well as number of non-deployed warheads FOR ICBM and SLBM?

- Apparently another particularity is the SS19 has to be kept unfueled and unarmed due to the volatility of it's fuel. So they would be counted in with the total launchers but not deployed launchers and with 0 deployed warheads.

GarryB wrote:

- Apparently another particularity is the SS19 has to be kept unfueled and unarmed due to the volatility of it's fuel. So they would be counted in with the total launchers but not deployed launchers and with 0 deployed warheads.

Where did this silly information come from?

The stilletto has a storage period of something like 20 odd years... are you trying to suggest they kept them with no fuel and no warhead on board and fuelled and armed them before launch...

How could they even do that in a missile launch silo?

The only Russian missiles I know of that require fuelling before use are the Kh-22M anti ship missiles, and space launch vehicles with cryogenic fuels that cannot be stored in the missile.

Amusing for you to suggest that a missile in service at one time in the hundreds would need to be fuelled and armed before it could be launched... that is just crazy... only the first Soviet ICBMs had that problem with their cryogenic components like the R-7.

franco wrote:

Bro, I just report it. Don't make it up!

max steel wrote:

franco wrote:

Bro, I just report it. Don't make it up!

Don't take Pavel Podvig words seriously.

In order to overcome the weaknesses of the R-7, namely the limited alert time and the poor survivability of a weapon exposed on a fixed launch pad, the Soviet Union began to explore both storable fuels and silo basing. In 1956 Yangel was given the order to begin design work on an ICBM using storable liquid fuel.

The most common hypergolic fuels, hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, and oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, are all liquid at ordinary temperatures and pressures. They are therefore sometimes called storable liquid propellants. They are suitable for use in spacecraft missions lasting many years. The cryogenity of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen limits their practical use to space launch vehicles where they need to be stored only briefly.