The TR-1 Temp (, Temp-S, meaning 'Speed') was a mobile
theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
during the
Cold War. It was assigned the
NATO reporting name SS-12
Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76 and the
GRAU 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 (
Front
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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
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty, formally the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles; / ДРСМ� ...
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 (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 and
Pershing II – comparable U. S. theatre nuclear missiles
*
List of missiles
*
Ghaznavi
*
Abdali-I
*
Shaheen-I
The Shaheen-I ( ur, شاہين-ا; official codename: Hatf–IV Shaheen), is a Pakistani land-based supersonic and short-to- medium range surface-to-surface guided ballistic missile jointly designed and developed by the joint venture of NESCO ...
*
J-600T Yıldırım
*
SOM
*
Bora
*
Fateh-313
*
Qiam 1
*
Al-Hussein
*
Nasr
*
Zelzal
*
Tondar-69
*
Burkan-1
*
RT-21 Temp 2S
External links
Global Security: TR-1
References
* Hogg, Ian (2000). ''Twentieth-Century Artillery''. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers.
Theatre ballistic missiles
Cold War missiles of the Soviet Union
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Military equipment introduced in the 1960s
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