R-29RM Shtil

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R-29RM Shtil/RSM-54
Soviet Military Power DD-ST-85-06588.JPEG
Type SLBM
Service history
In service 1986�2010
Used by Soviet Navy
Russian Navy
Production history
Designer Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Manufacturer Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant
Specifications
Mass 40.3 tonnes
Length 14.8 metres
Diameter 1.9 m
Warhead The payload (2800 kg) was capable of carrying ten 100 kT yield MIRV
warheads, though only a four MIRV warhead version entered production.
Blast yield 200 kt each [1]
Engine Three-stage liquid-propellant rocket
Operational
range
8,300 kilometres (5,200 mi)
Guidance
system
Astroinertial
The R-29RM Shtil[2] (Russian: ?????, lit. "Calmness", NATO reporting name SS-N-23
Skiff) was a liquid propellant, submarine-launched ballistic missile in use by the
Russian Navy. It had the alternate Russian designations RSM-54 and GRAU index 3M27.
[3] It was designed to be launched from the Delta IV submarine, each of which is
capable of carrying 16 missiles. The R-29RM could carry four 100 kiloton warheads
and had a range of about 8,500 kilometres (5,300 mi).[4] They were replaced with
the newer R-29RMU Sineva and later with the enhanced variant R-29RMU2 Layner.

Contents
1 History
1.1 Operation Behemoth
1.2 Space Launch Vehicle
1.3 End of service
2 Operators
2.1 Former operators
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
Operation Behemoth
Main article: Operation Behemoth
On 6 August 1991 at 21:09, K-407 Novomoskovsk, under the command of Captain Second
Rank Sergey Yegorov, became the world's only submarine to successfully launch an
all-missile salvo, launching 16 R-29RM (RSM-54) ballistic missiles of total weight
of almost 700 tons in 244 seconds (operation code name "Behemoth-2"). All the
missile hit their designated targets at the Kura Missile Test Range in Kamchatka.
[5]

Space Launch Vehicle

Several R-29RM were retrofitted as Shtill carrier rockets to be launched by Delta-
class submarines, the submarines being mobile can send a payload directly into a
heliosynchronic orbit, notably used by imaging satellites. Outside the confines of
the Russian military, this capability has been used commercially to place three out
of four microsatellites into a low earth orbit with one cancellation assigned to
the Baikonur Cosmodrome for better financial terms.

End of service
The last boat carrying R-29RM, K-51 Verkhoturye, went into refit to be rearmed with
the newer R-29RMU Sineva on 23 August 2010.[6]

Operators
Former operators
Russia
Russian Navy (1992-2010)
Soviet Union
Soviet Navy (1986-1991)
See also
R-29 Vysota
R-29RMU Sineva
R-29RMU2 Layner
RSM-56 Bulava
Kanyon
UGM-133 Trident II
M45 (missile)
M51 (missile)
JL-1
JL-2
K Missile family
Pukkuksong-1
R-39 Rif
R-39M
References
� Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (rus)
Aviation.ru � Missiles Archived 4 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
"R-29RM Shetal/Sineva (SS-N-23 'Skiff'/RSM-54/3M27) (Russian Federation),
Offensive weapons". Janes.com.
CSIS Missile Threat SS-N-23
"Submarine-launched ballistic missiles". russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 25 August
2019.
"SSBN K-51 Verkhoturye arrived to Zvezdochka for repairs today". Rusnavy.com. 23
August 2010.
External links
CSIS Missile Threat SS-N-23
IDB RSM-54 (R-29RM) 3M37, SS-N-23 "Skiff" (Russian)
Russian nuclear delivery systems at the Center for Defense Information
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NATO designation for Russian and former Soviet Union missiles
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