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Name: R-36M2 Voevoda

Other names: SS-18 Mod 5 “Satan”

Type: Ballistic

Length: 34m

Diameter: 3m

Payload: Ten 550-750kt warheads

Range: 10,000+ km

Status: Operationally Deployed

Sources:

“Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

Name: RT-2PM Topol

Other names: RS-12M, SS-25 “Sickle”

Type: Ballistic

Length: 21m

Diameter: 1.8m

Payload: One 550 kt warhead

Range: 10,500km

Status: Operationally Deployed

Sources:

[1] “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

[2] Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, “Russian Nuclear Forces 2014,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 70 no. 2, March/April 2014, 75-85, https://thebulletin.org.

[3] Pavel Podvig, “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 30 January 2004.

Name: RT-2UTTKh Topol-M

Other names: RS-12M1, RS-12M2, SS-27 Mod 1 "Sickle B"

Type: Ballistic

Length: 23m

Diameter: 2m

Payload: One 750-800 kt warhead

Range: 11,000km

Status: Operationally Deployed

Sources:

[1] “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

[2] Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, “Russian Nuclear Forces 2014,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 70 no. 2, March/April 2014, 75-85, https://thebulletin.org.

[3] Pavel Podvig, “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 30 January 2004.

Name: RS-24 Yars

Other names: SS-27 Mod 2

Type: Ballistic

Length: 23m

Diameter: 2m

Payload: Four 100 kt warheads

Range: 11,000km

Status: Operationally Deployed

Sources:

[1] “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

[2] Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, “Russian Nuclear Forces 2014,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 70 no. 2, March/April 2014, 75-85, https://thebulletin.org.

[3] Pavel Podvig, “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 30 January 2004.

Name: RSM-56 Bulava

Other names: SS-NX-32

Type: Ballistic

Length: 12m

Diameter: 2m

Payload: Six 100 kt warheads

Range: 8,000+km

Status: Operationally Deployed

Sources:

[1] “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

[2] Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, “Russian Nuclear Forces 2014,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 70 no. 2, March/April 2014, 75-85, https://thebulletin.org.

[3] Pavel Podvig, “Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 30 January 2004.

Name: RS-26 Rubezh

Other names: РС-26 Рубеж

Type: Ballistic

Length: 18.5m

Diameter: 2m

Payload: MIRV (3)

Range: 2050km+

Status: Testing

Sources:

[1] “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat,” National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, 2013, www.afisr.af.mil.

[2] Hans Kristensen, "Russian Missile Test Creates Confusion and Opposition in Washington," Federation of American Scientists, 3 July 2013, fas.org.

[3] Jeffrey Lewis, "An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by Any Other Name," Foreign Policy, 25 April 2014, foriegnpolicy.org.

Name: R-500

Other names: 9M728

Type: Cruise Missile

Length: approximately 7m*

Diameter: approximately .5m

Range: 500km

Status: Operationally Deployed



*total length with booster rocket

Sources:

[1] Jeffrey Lewis, "Russian Cruise Missiles Revisited," Arms Control Wonk, 27 October 2015, www.armscontrolwonk.com

[2] Pavel Podvig, "Cruise Missiles and INF - What about 9M729?" Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, June 2015, russianforces.org

Name: R-14 Chusovaya

Other names: SS-5 ‘Skean’

Type: Ballistic

Length: 24 m

Diameter: 2.40 m

Payload: One Megaton-class warhead

Range: 4,000 km

Status: Eliminated under INF Treaty

Sources:

“R-14/SS-5 Skean,” Federation of American Scientists, fas.org.

Name: R-12 Dvina

Other names: SS-4 ‘Sandal’

Type: Ballistic

Length: 22 m

Diameter: 1.65 m

Payload: One Megaton-class warhead

Range: 2,000 km

Status: Eliminated under INF Treaty

Sources:

“R-12/SS-4 SANDAL,” Federation of American Scientists, fas.org.