A-235/PL-19 Nudol ABM-ASAT

Russia testing self-propelled launcher for advanced anti-missile defense system

The enterprise’s specialists have also developed the launching automation equipment for the self-propelled launcher and the transporter for its operation and maintenance

MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russia is testing the 14P222 self-propelled launcher developed by the Design Bureau of Special Machine-Building (part of Almaz-Antey defense manufacturer) for the Nudol anti-missile and anti-satellite defense system, Design Bureau CEO Vladimir Dolbenkov said in an interview with the National Defense magazine on Thursday.

"A modern mobile system has been created for the Aerospace Force as part of the Nudol R&D work. The 14P222 self-propelled launcher has been developed and is undergoing trials. For the first time in the domestic machine-building industry, the task of creating an electric hydraulic drive with the installation of a transporter and launcher container with a high degree of vertical accuracy for air and missile defense systems has been solved," the chief executive said.
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The enterprise’s specialists have also developed the launching automation equipment for the self-propelled launcher and the transporter for its operation and maintenance, he added.

The Nudol is an advanced anti-missile defense system developed by Almaz-Antey Group. According to the data of open sources, the long-range interception system is outfitted with new missile interceptors. As the US intelligence community believes, the system has anti-satellite capabilities.

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Viktor Murakhovsky told TASS in May 2019 that the Nudol was a mobile anti-missile defense system designed to strike hypersonic targets, such as intercontinental ballistic missile warheads.

As the editor-in-chief said, Russia’s vast territory cannot be shielded from one position only and that is why the Nudol mobile system under development can move and deploy in positioning districts in the areas, from which a threat may come.

The daily Izvestia wrote in February 2018, citing the data it had received from Russia’s Defense Ministry, that the top brass would upgrade the Moscow anti-ballistic missile defense system before the end of 2018, arming it with 53T6M Nudol super-fast and super-maneuverable missile interceptors with their deployment in the Moscow Region.

As Russia’s Defense Ministry told the daily Izvestia, the 53T6M missiles that will be put on experimental combat duty are designated for anti-missile and anti-satellite defense of both Moscow and the Central Industrial District.

According to the linked article it is a new ABM interceptor. They do not specify the model. Some think it is the A-235 since the
transport to the launch site looks like a previous A-135 test.

Note the obnoxious warning below the video on YouTube about Zvezda being funded by the Russian government. And Google-YouTube
is run by Alphabet a private corporation with a neo-Trotskyist agenda that engages in gross censorship of videos and search engine
results.

ahmedfire wrote:
Sorry , which project is this ? is that initial speed is real  

Looks like 3 mach launch speed for me .

This missile launch is distorted because the first thing you see is the enormous fiery rocket plume blasting out of the tube and then the missile shoots up through the column of fire like a blur...

It reached the cloud in 2 seconds or less , if we said that cloud is at least 2km away from the earth, it means the speed is about 3 mach .

According to American data, this is the eighth test of the Nudol missile, whether it was successful is not reported. The previous (successful, according to American intelligence sources) test of the Nudol missile was carried out from Plesetsk on December 23, 2018, when a missile launched from a mobile launcher flew 1864 miles in 17 minutes (about 3000 km in terms of land miles). The launching sites for testing the Nudol missiles in Plesetsk are allegedly located on the former launch pad of the Cyclone launch vehicles.

Recall that, according to American data, before the test on April 15, 2020, seven (including five successful, according to American estimates) missile launches of the Nudol system were made in Russia:

1) Start on August 12, 2014 - from the Plesetsk training ground - according to the US Department of Defense was unsuccessful, however, according to the web resource planet4589.org, it was successful;

2) Start April 22, 2015 - Plesetsk - according to the US Department of Defense and the planet4589.org web resource, was unsuccessful;

3) Start November 18, 2015 - Plesetsk - successful;

4) Start May 25, 2016 - Plesetsk - successful;

5) Start on December 16, 2016 - made from a "base in the central part of Russia" (Kapustin Yar training ground?) - successful.

6) Start March 26, 2018 - Plesetsk - with a standard mobile launcher (previous launches were made from test launchers) - successful.

7) Start December 23, 2018 - Plesetsk - with a standard mobile launcher - successful

A few days ago Russia issued a NOTAM notice that suggested that it will conduct a test of the Nudol ASAT system on April 15, 2020. And indeed it did. The missile was launched from the Plesetsk test site.

GarryB wrote:But is it a 2km cloud base or a 5km cloud base... obviously when it is launching it has full fuel for the entire trip so its power to weight ratio is the poorest it can be... after a few seconds of flight it will be much lighter and that rocket power will get it really moving fast... but to put it in perspective you need a rifle to accelerate a bullet to Mach 3 so quickly, but this is a pure rocket.

RTN wrote:

GarryB wrote:But is it a 2km cloud base or a 5km cloud base... obviously when it is launching it has full fuel for the entire trip so its power to weight ratio is the poorest it can be... after a few seconds of flight it will be much lighter and that rocket power will get it really moving fast... but to put it in perspective you need a rifle to accelerate a bullet to Mach 3 so quickly, but this is a pure rocket.

Back in the 60s USSR discovered that if they detonated one of their nuclear weapons in space anywhere near our incoming warheads, the intense x-rays would destroy the warheads’ heat shields. Unbeknownst to us, all of our warheads were fatally flawed. This prompted the immediate development of new x-ray-resistant, graphite-reinforced heat shields for U.S. warheads, and these are still in use today.

So even if the A-135 or A 235 carries a 2 - 5 MT nuclear warhead and creates a huge blast radius, even then incoming U.S warheads will survive because of the heat shields.

GarryB wrote:A heat shield might be useful against a nuclear blast some distance away, but these nuclear explosions are going to occur within 100m or so of the warheads... the incoming warheads will be inside the fireballs... what sort of heat shields can put up with the combination of reentry and 3 million degrees C?