The RT-15 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 ...

deployed by the

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during the

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. It was assigned the

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SS-14 Scamp (alternately the SS-14 Scapegoat) and carried the

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index 8K96. The RT-15 was an early Soviet attempt to develop a road-mobile

. It was intended to be capable of being launched from both sea and ground sites and had a maximum range of 2000–2500 km. The weapon's 'reaction time' in the normal readiness condition after its arrival at the launch site would have been 20 to 30 minutes and the 'holding time' at peak readiness (with a time of two to ten minutes before the missile could be launched) would be about a day.

History

RT-15 was developed by the S. P. Korolev design bureau (OKB-1) on the basis of the second and third stages of the

RT-2 The RT-2 was an intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union, which was in service from December 1968 until 1976. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-13 Savage and carried the GRAU index 8K98. Designed by OKB-1, about 60 ...

ICBM. The missile was carried on a T-10 heavy tank chassis in a sealed container with a striking resemblance to the US

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ICBM. After missile erection, the container split longitudinally and was withdrawn. The missile was developed in the early 1960s and was first seen on a mobile land launcher during May 1965. Six missiles were experimentally deployed with the

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at the rocket base Lesnaya in

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. The system was refused acceptance for general service, on the grounds that the launch support electronics was too bulky and fragile. The missiles at Lesnaya were decommissioned during 1971. РТ-15 - SS-14 SCAPEGOAT / SCAMP
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Variants

* RT-25 modernized derivative * RT-15M (RSM-25) MRBM and SLBM

Operators

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External links

Global Security: RT-15

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rt-15 Theatre ballistic missiles Cold War missiles of the Soviet Union Arsenal Plant (Saint Petersburg) products Military equipment introduced in the 1960s

History

Variants

Operators

See also

External links

References