The TR-1 Temp (, Temp-S, meaning 'Speed') was a mobile
theatre ballistic missile
A theatre ballistic missile (TBM) is any ballistic missile used against targets "Theater (warfare), in-theatre". Examples of this type of in-theatre missile are the Soviet Union, Soviet RT-15, TR-1 Temp and United States, American PGM-19 Jupiter ...
developed and deployed by the
Soviet Union
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during the
Cold War
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. It was assigned the
NATO reporting name
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SS-12
Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76 and the
GRAU
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index 9К76. A modified version was initially identified by NATO as a new design and given the SS-22 reporting name, but later recognized it as merely a variant of the original and maintained the name Scaleboard. The Temp entered service in the mid-1960s.
The TR-1 was designed as a mobile weapon to give
theatre
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commanders nuclear strike capability. The weapon used the same mobile launcher (
MAZ-543) as the
R-17 Elbrus missile but had an environmental protective cover that split down the middle and was only opened when the missile was ready to fire. All were decommissioned in 1988–1989 as part of the
INF treaty banning such weapons.
Operators
;: The Soviet Armed Forces were the only operator of the TR-1 Temp. It was also placed in countries of
Warsaw Pact
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for example
Hranice (Military area Libava) (39) in Czechoslovakia, and
Königsbrück (19),
Bischofswerda
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Geography
The town is located 33 km to the east of Dresden at the edge of the Upper Lusatian mountain country. The town is known as t ...
(8),
Waren (22) and
Wokuhl (5) in
East Germany
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.
Its active reach from there covered whole
West Germany
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, parts of Scandinavia, France and Netherlands.
See also
*
MGM-31 Pershing
The MGM-31A Pershing was the missile used in the Pershing 1 and Pershing 1a field artillery missile systems. It was a solid-fueled two-stage theater ballistic missile designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the PGM-11 Redstone missile ...
and
Pershing II – comparable U. S. theatre nuclear missiles
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List of missiles
Below is a list of missiles, sorted alphabetically into large categories and subcategories by name and purpose.
Other missile lists
Types of missiles:
* Conventional guided missiles
** Air-to-air missile
** Air-to-surface missile
** Anti-radia ...
*
Ghaznavi
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Abdali-I
The Abdali (Urdu: ابدالى; Military designation: Hatf–II; Transliteration, ''Trans.'': ''Target-2'') is a Surface to surface missile, land-based Tactical ballistic missile, tactical ballistic missile currently in military service with th ...
*
Shaheen-I
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J-600T Yıldırım
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SOM
*
Bora
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Fateh-313
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Qiam 1
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Al-Hussein
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Nasr
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Zelzal
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Tondar-69
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Burkan-1
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RT-21 Temp 2S
The RT-21 Temp 2S () was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42 (15Ж42).
The RT-21 was the ...
External links
Global Security: TR-1
References
* Hogg, Ian (2000). ''Twentieth-Century Artillery''. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers.
Short-range ballistic missiles of the Soviet Union
Nuclear missiles of the Soviet Union
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