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By: - 21st February 2004 at 02:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
This is probably the new, maneuvering warhead for the Topol-M ICBM (around ~50 missiles in service, being built around 6-10 per year since 1998). Modern nuclear warheads are hypersonic upon re-entry.
By: - 21st February 2004 at 09:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
No, this was a test of a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle that was launched from an RS-18.
"Colonel General Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, said that the prototype of a new hypersonic vehicle had proved its ability to manoeuvre in orbit – a quality he said would allow a weapon based on such a craft to dodge an enemy’s missile shield.
“The flying vehicle changed both the altitude and direction of its flight,” Baluyevsky said in Moscow
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Baluyevsky refused to comment on what kind of engine the vehicle had, how long its flight lasted and how exactly it manoeuvered"
TJ
By: - 21st February 2004 at 10:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Originally posted by TJ
[B]No, this was a test of a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle that was launched from an RS-18.
Source?
By: - 21st February 2004 at 17:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Think about it? Baluyevsky in interview revealed that the craft could be launched from an aircraft. 'Powered craft with the ability of wide manoeuvre and theoretically releasable from an aircraft' - this is not any description of a MIRV.
TJ
By: - 21st February 2004 at 18:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
However, note that only 1 test was successful. Well, could be 2 succcess if the prototype worked according to theory.
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Date Posted: 20-Feb-2004
JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - FEBRUARY 25, 2004
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Russian missile capabilities under scrutiny
James O'Halloran Editor, Jane's Land-Based Air Defence
London
Russia's ballistic missile capabilities experienced mixed fortunes earlier this month, when, of six reported test firings between 17-19 February, one was successful, three appear to have failed, one was destroyed in flight and a new prototype missile was tested.
The Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Col Gen Yuri Baluyevsky was reported as saying, during large-scale military manoeuvres, that the Russian Army is developing new ballistic missile technology that will defeat any other country's anti-missile defence systems.
The planned system is understood to be hypersonic, acquired in response to the new ballistic-missile defence systems currently being developed by the US.
President Vladimir Putin has recently spoken about the development of a new generation of strategic arms to maintain Russia's status as a nuclear power. He reiterated that the new intercontinental missile will be hypersonic and have a high precision of strike to the target.
The new weapons should be available from 2010-15, in accordance with the long-term strategic plan to re-equip the entire Russian armed forces with new weapons from 2010. Until this time, weapons systems will be upgraded and modernised.
On 17 February Putin was meant to witness live firings from a ballistic missile submarine of the Russian Northern Fleet but it was reported that the three ballistic missile tests all failed.
The government reported it had successfully test-fired a SS-19 (RS-18) on 18 February from Baikonur in Kazakhstan but a test firing from a submarine in the Barents Sea on the same day was aborted 98 seconds after launch.
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By: - 21st February 2004 at 18:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
so is this a successful test of the delivery craft or of the missile itself?
any pics?
By: - 22nd February 2004 at 02:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Originally posted by TJ
Think about it? Baluyevsky in interview revealed that the craft could be launched from an aircraft. 'Powered craft with the ability of wide manoeuvre and theoretically releasable from an aircraft' - this is not any description of a MIRV.TJ
So what does that have to do with a UR-100 then?
By: - 23rd February 2004 at 22:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Originally posted by Vympel
So what does that have to do with a UR-100 then?
The reason why it was an SS-19 STILLETO that launched the hypersonic vehicle is due to the specific conditions of the START I protocol. The Russians announced to the west that ICBM/SLBM would be launched and that one of those would be carrying a hypersonic research vehicle. The first missile to be launched under the protocol was the SS-19 STILLETO from Tyuratum. The Russians provided no impact areas on the Kamchatka peninsula for this test because the purpose of the missile was to boost the hypersonic research vehicle. The missile only flew a partial ballistic trajectory and then the scramjet powered hypersonic vehicle detached to conduct its mission. The second missile to launch was the SS-N-23 SKIFF from the DELTA-IV which impacted on the Kamchatka peninsula. The third missile to launch was the SS-25 SICKLE from Plesetsk which also impacted on the Kamchatka peninsula as per treaty conditions. As to the type of hypersonic vehicle the SS-19 was carrying it was more than likely an IGLA or derivative:
http://www.global-defence.com/1999/missiles/missile3.htm
"Igla
RSA also is pursuing the Igla vehicle, an integrated engine/airframe concept similar to the US Hyper-X that employs a hydrogen scramjet. The vehicle is 5m/16.4ft in length and designed for mach 5-14 speeds. It is to be boosted to speed by launch aboard an SS-18 or SS-19 ICBM. A date has not yet been set for an Igla test flight"
http://www.milparade.ru/market/paid/014/06_02.htm
"FIRST FLIGHT OF IGLA HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT SCHEDULED FOR 2004
According to the representatives of the Central Institute of Aircraft Engine Building (TsIAM), the first flight of the Igla hypersonic aircraft, currently under development in Russia is scheduled for the year 2004.
The Igla is designed to carry out research and testing of a scramjet. This engine runs on liquid hydrogen and is planned to power the future advanced space passenger-carrying and military aircraft. These aircraft will offer several times lower specific cost of putting payloads into orbit. Presently, this cost makes up US$ 8-30,000.
The Voronezh Khimavtomatika Design Bureau has already produced a single scramjet which is planned to be used for flight tests at M=6.5.
TsIAM plans to demonstrate a full-scale mockup of the Igla at the MAKS-99 Air Show in Zhukovsky (Moscow region).
In the words of the representative of the institute, all the previous works on the scramjet have been carried out both with domestic (the Russian Space Agency) and foreign customers: France, USA. In the framework of this programme, a US$ 2 million contract has been signed with "a number of the US governmental organisations".
However, the Igla programme may be implemented only in case adequate financing is provided, the representative stressed. The project cost is about 1 billion roubles (US$ 40 million). As far as there is no such money in the Russian budget, the scramjet developers are planning to attract additional, possibly foreign investments. The US plans to spend US$ over 100 million on similar programme."
http://www.fas.org/news/russia/1995/fbust044_95021.htm
"The Mashinostroenie NPO showed, in addition to its Almaz program, its Strela mini-launcher project and Igla experimental hypersonic vehicle. Like the Rockot, the Strela rocket is a derivative of the UR-100N (alias SS-19) missile. It is the subject of an agreement with Khrunichev. Launched from a Baykonur or Plessetsk silo, it can place payloads of 1.2 mt to 1.8 mt in circular orbits at 300 to 1,100 km, inclined at 63[DEG]. The Igla demonstrator is part of the Oriol national program devoted to the study of hypersonic flight. Weighing 2 mt, it is to be launched by the SS-19 missile over a suborbital trajectory. TsIAM's [Central Institute of Aviation Engine Building] liquid hydrogen scramjet is designed to operate from Mach 6 to Mach 14 at an altitude of 45 km “
A paper on the IGLA:
http://hypersonic2002.aaaf.asso.fr/papers/17_5250.pdf
TJ
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By: Distiller - 20th February 2004 at 21:00
Associated Press
POSTED AT 9:28 AM EST Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004
Moscow — Russia has successfully tested a hypersonic anti-Star Wars weapon capable of penetrating any prospective missile shield, a senior general said Thursday.
The prototype weapon proved it could manoeuvre so quickly as to make “any missile defence useless,” Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, told a news conference.
He said that the prototype of a new hypersonic vehicle had proved its ability to manoeuvre while in orbit, thereby making it able to dodge an enemy's missile shield.
“The flying vehicle changed both the altitude and direction of its flight,” Gen. Baluyevsky said. “During the experiment conducted yesterday, we proved that it's possible to develop weapons that would make any missile defence useless.”
Gen. Baluyevsky's comment followed a statement by President Vladimir Putin, who said Wednesday after attending rocket launches from the Plesetsk launch pad in northern Russia that experiments conducted during the military manoeuvres had proved that Russia could build new strategic weapons that would be unrivalled in the world.
Mr. Putin said the development of new weapons was not directed against the United States, and Gen. Baluyevsky reaffirmed the statement, saying that the experiment should not be seen as a Russian response to U.S. missile-defence plans.
“The experiment conducted by us must not be interpreted as a warning to the Americans not to build their missile defence because we designed this thing,” he told Associated Press.
He said that Russia has no intention of immediately deploying new weapons based on the experimental vehicle. “We have demonstrated our capability, but we have no intention of building this craft tomorrow,” he said.
Gen. Baluyevsky said that Russia had informed the United States about its intention to conduct the experiment and added that U.S. officials issued no objections.
He said that the new vehicle had “ceased to exist” after the experiment — presumably burning up in the atmosphere.
Gen. Baluyevsky refused to comment on what kind of engine the vehicle had, how long its flight lasted and how exactly it manoeuvred. He said that it had been designed by several Russian companies, but refused to name them.
As part of the massive military manoeuvres described as the largest in more than two decades, the military launched a Molniya-M booster rocket with a Kosmos military satellite from the northern Plesetsk launch pad and two ballistic missiles — a Topol from Plesetsk and an RS-18 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Gen. Baluyevsky refused to say which of the rockets had carried the vehicle into the orbit.