RSD-10 Pioneer - Wikipedia
WEBIts NATO reporting name was SS-20 Saber. Its deployment was a major cause of NATO's 'Double-Track Decision', which led to the deployment of more medium-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe. The RSD-10 was withdrawn from service under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
RSD-10 Pioneer (SS-20) - Missile Threat
WEBApr 23, 2024 — The RSD-10 Pioneer (NATO: SS-20 “Saber”) was a Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that entered service in 1976. Its wide-scale deployment was a key driver behind NATO’s 1979 decision to station U.S. Pershing II IRBMs in Europe.
RT-21M / SS-20 SABRE - Russian / Soviet Nuclear Forces
WEBThe RT-21M / SS-20 is a solid-fuel, two-stage, theater-based ballistic missile based on the first and second stages of the SS-16. The SS-20 was probably intended to replace or augment the SS-4s and SS-5s deployed in the Soviet Eastern European theater, thus providing approximately three times the number of warheads of the older force.
Medium-range missile complex RSD-10 Pioneer (SS-20)
WEBThe appearance of the latter caused great turmoil in NATO countries, and very quickly the new Soviet missile became known as the SS-20 - "Thunderstorm of Europe". August 10, 1979 for flight tests was presented missile 15Zh53, which had …
Pioneer | 15Zh45 | SS-20 | Saber - russianspaceweb.com
WEBOne of the most menacing weapons of the Cold War, the Pioneer mobile medium-range missile became the first strategic weapon to be iliminated under arms control agreements reached by the Soviet Union and the United States in the second half of the 1980s.
SS-20 Saber | missile | Britannica
WEB…were long-range descendants of the SS-20 Saber, an IRBM carried on mobile launchers that entered service in 1977, partly along the border with China and partly facing western Europe. That two-stage, solid-fueled missile could deliver three 150-kiloton warheads a distance of 3,000 miles with a CEP of 1,300 feet.
SS-20 "Pioneer" - National Air and Space Museum
WEBThe SS-20, known as the "Pioneer" in Russian, is a two-stage, solid propellant missile with three multiple targetable reentry warheads. The missile is almost 16.5 meters tall.
SS-20 "Pioneer" - National Air and Space Museum
WEBThe SS-20, known as the "Pioneer" in Russian, is a two-stage, solid propellant missile with three multiple targetable reentry warheads. The missile is almost 16.5 meters tall. The exterior of the first stage is yellow fiberglass with numbers and Cyrillic letters printed along the circumference.
NATO foiled Soviets with Cold War Double-Track – DW – 12/12/2019
WEBDec 12, 2019 — The Cold War escalated when the Soviet Union stationed nuclear-armed SS-20 Saber missile systems in the Eastern bloc in 1977. NATO responded with the Double-Track Decision, which restored...
The SS-20 “Saber” is a sinister Cold War relic - The Brothers Brick
WEBFeb 18, 2019 — NATO code-named it the SS-20 “Saber”. It had a range of 500-5500 km and carried three nuclear warheads, each of which was roughly ten times as powerful as the bomb used against Hiroshima.