Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN): Discussion & News

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If the collective Western warmonger retards want to hyperventilate about "Russian agression" or "invasion of (the) Ukraine" then lets give these fukstiks something to worry about.  The only thing that gives these evil reptiles in US/EU/NATO a reason for pause is the concern that going too far might result in sudden arrival of 600 kT buckets of artificial sunshine delivered straight to their doors. Uber Eats has nothing on this weeks specials from Russias Strategic Rocket Forces.  Order a Yars , get a Bulava for free.



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TASS; 05.06.2022, 04:59

In 2022, the share of modern weapons of the Strategic Missile Forces is planned to be increased to 86%

In particular, the rearmament to the Avangard complexes continues, said the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev.

MOSCOW, 5 June. /TASS/. The share of modern weapons of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) is planned to be increased to 86% this year, Colonel General Sergei Karakaev, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, said in the Military Acceptance program on the Zvezda TV channel.

"We continue to re-equip with Avangard complexes. Sarmat - we are approaching putting the first regiment on combat duty in the Uzhur formation this year. Further, their number will only increase. The level of modern armament today of the Strategic Rocket Forces according to last year - 83%, the task is to increase by the end of this year, taking into account the putting on combat duty of the complexes, up to 86%," Karakaev said.

As reported by the Russian Defense Ministry in early 2020, the Strategic Missile Forces will completely switch to modern missile systems by 2024. On December 21, 2021, at an expanded meeting of the board of the military department, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that more than 20 launchers with Yars, Avangard and Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles will be delivered in 2022.

https://n.tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14825459

Russia will develop a new "killer missile" for the Navy
Russia is developing a new “aircraft carrier killer” — the Zmievik ballistic missile with hypersonic combat equipment for the Navy. This was reported by TASS with reference to sources close to the military-industrial complex.
“The Zmeevik ballistic missile with hypersonic combat equipment has been developed for quite a long time. It will be designed to destroy large surface targets, primarily aircraft carriers, ”the agency reports. According to one of the sources, the missile may enter service with coastal missile units of the Navy.
In July, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the successful launch of the Sarmat stationary-based intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It is the most powerful missile in the world with the longest target range, capable of overcoming any missile defense systems that exist and can be created in the future. Russian President Vladimir Putin specified that the newest missile system would be put into operation at the end of 2022. https://ura.news/news/1052569306

The AShBM will be 1 more arrow in their quiver that will make up whatever gaps in other platforms they may have.

Interesting... they could make it capable of hitting land based targets too, it would be a very useful dual purpose weapon.

Would be interesting to see what range it can achieve... maybe it could be a scramjet powered replacement for Iskander and used by the Army against land targets deep behind enemy lines, and also by the Navy against large surface ships or against targets on land launched from Ships and Subs.

Of course if the INF treaty remained in effect such a missile would be illegal, but thanks to the US they make a lot of sense.

As experience in Ukraine and Syria these types of missiles are excellent value for money... no bomber or strike aircraft put at risk, no fighter escort needed, no jammer or wild weasel type support aircraft needed and no pilots or crews lives risked and available 24/7 no matter the weather.

I wonder if it is scaled to fit in UKSK launch tubes or if it has its own special launcher... if it uses the UKSK launch tubes (and it should because all new missiles should be designed to launch from these tubes... that is why they are called Universal...) then the cruise missile versions of the Iskander launchers should be able to launch them without much modification.

A coastal version presumably supplanting BAL and Bastion (Uran and Onyx) coastal missile systems... perhaps they will at the same time replace the Bereg 130mm gun system with a 152mm Coalition based gun system.

At the breakup of the SU, Soviets were quite advanced in experimenting with multiple warheads AShMs. I suppose this is a kind of follow-up to this projects.

November 30, 10:51 am

Shoigu said that five formations of the Strategic Missile Forces are preparing to deploy new missile systems

The head of the Ministry of Defense noted that work continues on the creation of an interspecific test site in the Krasnoyarsk Territory through the space forces.

MOSCOW, 30 November. /TASS/. New missile systems are going to be deployed in five formations of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), head of the department Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the collegium of the Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday.
"At the end of the meeting, we will discuss the draft list of capital construction facilities for the next year. At the moment, five formations of the Strategic Missile Forces have completed the construction of infrastructure facilities to accommodate new missile systems," he said.

The head of the Ministry of Defense noted that work is continuing along the lines of the space forces to create an interspecific test site in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In the Navy, coastal energy infrastructure facilities in the village of Gadzhiyevo and facilities of the main base in Kaspiysk were put into operation. According to him, all the tasks set by Russian President Vladimir Putin to restore infrastructure in new regions of the country are being fulfilled ahead of schedule. When preparing a list of capital construction projects for 2023, special attention will be paid to construction in the interests of strategic nuclear forces, Shoigu added.

"It is important to maintain a balanced approach to construction planning within the allocated budget funds. It is necessary to ensure the commissioning of infrastructure facilities and simultaneously with the supply of modern weapons and military equipment to the troops," the minister set the task.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16461399

Missile launches in 2022 and plans for 2023

According to the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Russia conducted four missile launches in 2022 (all of them from Plesetsk) and plans to launch eight missiles in 2023. Some launches will be conducted from the Kapustin Yar test site.

Two of these four launches were conducted as part of strategic exercise - mobile Yars on 19 February 2022 and on 26 October 2022. One launch was the first flight test of the Sarmat ICBM on 20 April 2022.

There was no official announcement of the fourth launch. It is reported to be a test launch of a Sirena-M command missile, based on Yars ICBM, that was conducted in June 2022.

The upcoming launches of ICBMs from Kapustin Yar may be somewhat significant. In these launches an ICBM is normally launched to the Sary-Shagan site in Kazakhstan. The array of radars deployed at Sary-Shagan by the Soviet Union helps collect all kinds of data related to warhead re-entry. The most recent test of this kind took place in November 2019 (there was another one shortly before that, in July 2019). One potential issue is that Kazakhstan is a state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in January 2021. The treaty prohibits its parties from assisting anyone in any activity prohibited by the treaty. While ICBMs are not, of course, nuclear weapons, carrying nuclear warheads is their only mission (at least today). One can interpret TPNW provisions in different ways, but I would think that assisting someone in developing better ICBMs is not exactly consistent with the treaty obligations. It is, of course, something for states parties to decide.

https://russianforces.org/blog/2022/12/missile_launches_in_2022_and_p.shtml

Destroying the actual power stations would require massive aerial bombardment campaigns or tactical nukes.
It is much easier and cost effective to destroy the transformers.

I believe the point is that in the medium term the damage is not irreparable. Even if 60%of the US population dies there will still be a US, hence more firepower is needed.

The-thing-next-door wrote:
Even if 60%of the US population dies there will still be a US

You kidding me right?

As a wise man once said "The living will come to envy the dead"

The point is that nuclear weapons are not intended to destroy industry, they are to destroy the population centres of the enemy country.

Now that the New START treaty is suspended and I doubt the US would want to negotiate without including China and demand to be allowed to have as many nukes as Russia and China have added together, I don't think that makes sense.

With their new breeder reactors coming on line Russia will be able to make weapons grade material very very quickly and relatively cheaply too.

As HATO encroaches on their territory and Russian territory also moves west the risk of theatre based conflicts increases but with Finland no longer being neutral then conventional forces are not so meaningful and tactical nukes become more important and should be a priority for them too... an enormous increase in tactical nukes would be very very useful for them making sure Poland and Finland and the rest of the EU and european based HATO behave.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12463725%40egNews

A test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site

On April 11, a combat crew of the Strategic Missile Forces successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile of a mobile ground-based missile system from the 4th State Central Interspecific Range Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Region.

The purpose of the launch is to test advanced combat equipment for intercontinental ballistic missiles.

This launch made it possible to confirm the correctness of the circuit design and technical solutions used in the development of new strategic missile systems.

The training warhead of the rocket hit a conditional target at the Sary-Shagan training ground (Republic of Kazakhstan) with a given accuracy.

The launch tasks were completed in full.

will not agree. Nuclear weapons are intended to destroy mainly the enemy's industrial and military potential.

You are confusing western with Russian strategy and tactics.

For the US this is an economic war, which is why it is against Russia and China instead of against real ideological enemies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE and Kuwaite etc.

This is why the focus has often been on a pre-emptive nuclear strike that will destroy the enemy's nuclear potential.

Attacking an enemies nuclear weapons only works if you strike first, which is US policy because they think if they hit enough Soviet or Russian nukes the Soviets or Russians might surrender or not have enough nukes to do the west damage they couldn't get over... obviously an ABM system is part of that... the first generation ABM system would struggle with a couple of threats, but as they improve it and fix the bugs if you look at the third improvement they are talking about interceptors with multiple warheads to intercept more than one incoming target at a time... the idea is that you destroy as many of their subs and bombers and Silos and truck mounted missiles as you can and then hope you have enough interceptors and ABM missiles (including ones on ships) to shoot down anything they do manage to fire.

It is obviously all bullshit and makes no sense at all if Russia has already launched their attack because the subs and silos and aircraft will be empty and missiles and warheads on the way.

The introduction of Poseidon and Thunderbird and with new ICBM and SLBM warheads that evade interception it is not going to work in my opinion.

But the Soviet plans were to hit Cheyanne mountain and their Silos and probably their airbases... but eventually they went from SS-18s carrying single 20 megaton warheads for that sort of job, to carrying 10 plus much smaller warheads to level cities.

If you only focus on hitting military targets in a nuclear war what happens 5 years down the track when 300 million americans want another go at you?

Not to mention the 600 odd million europeans who can walk to where you are...

If America thinks it can survive it will think it can win which means a first strike is their best chance of surviving... if they know the missiles are going to get through and their entire country will be irradiated and population killed then it sounds more like something they will want to actually avoid.

Hell, just mention in the first few hours the number of explosions in the upper atmosphere is going to screw up 99% of the satellites so no internet and no satellites for 150 years I think a lot of young people would stop protesting that Kiev should get more weapons and ammo and money and start anti war protests...

That's why the US was messing with the NMD systems in Poland, etc. to place the IRBM near Moscow.

They want a decapitation strike, which means destroying Moscow... whether using IRBMs or MRBM the ABM system around Moscow would probably stop them, but even if they didn't the Russians would automatically launch anyway.

ABM systems in Poland were supposed to improve tracking of missile launches so other ABM systems would be better prepared closer to the US like AEGIS cruisers in the pacific or atlantic ocean, of the ABM missiles in Alaska.

That was just an invitation to nuke Poland first.

Nuclear weapons are to destroy missile bases, industry, refineries, military potential, railway junctions,

Those targets only matter in long wars... in a nuke war if you take out a large percentage of the human population then the rest are focused mainly on survival and rebuilding and they stop fighting if they can... as long as you don't then try to invade they will likely focus on survival... which will start by mostly killing each other for resources...

I wonder if Russia plans on keeping the R36m2s in service while introducing the Sarmat along side them.

It would allow Russia to rapidly increase its nuclear arsenal.