The РСД-10 missile, which was once a famous ballistic missile, but except for the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact bloc, including the Soviets themselves, most people did not know what it was.

For ordinary people who are not members of the Warsaw Pact, this model is absolutely confusing as soon as it is reported.

Shamili and Karimi didn't know exactly what kind of missile it was, but fortunately there was a former CIA agent here, Kosygin saw the confusion between the two, and simply used the fingers of his right hand to draw four letters and numbers on the palm of his left hand - SS-20!

However, this hand is making such a gesture, but the mouth is saying: "Пионер, how many have you gotten out? Is a single warhead a standard or a large-yield type?"

Well, now Shamili and Karimi understand what it is, because it's famous enough!

РСД-10 medium-range ballistic missile, this is the number used by the Soviets themselves when finalizing it, 'Пионер' is the code name given by the Soviets, which means 'vanguard'.

However, the code names given to the weapons and equipment developed by the Soviets themselves are not particularly well-known in the outside world, and they will even be unknown, because according to the custom, whenever the Soviet Union has new equipment, the opponent NATO will definitely give it a NATO internal number, and by the way, add a code name to use it together.

Thanks to the Western media, the number and code name given by NATO to Soviet equipment have become familiar to the outside world, and it is customary to use NATO's number and code name to refer to Soviet equipment in China.

The code name of this case is good and bad, generally speaking, how ugly it sounds, and the Americans also hope to use the spiritual victory method to belittle the opponent's equipment without a bottom line.

For example, the MiG-15 fighter that caused the "United Nations Army" to crash into a bag on the Korean battlefield was given the code name "Bundle of Firewood" by NATO in the extreme and self-deception, probably in the hope that this kind of powerful Soviet-style front-line fighter would never be able to fly.

A bundle of firewood, how do you fly?

It's a pity that the Spiritual Victory Method doesn't work very often, and at most it's better than nothing.

But there are also good names and very vivid ones, such as the Soviet Union, and even the most powerful P-36 heavy ICBM in the world, which is numbered SS-18 by NATO, and codenamed Satan, which is "Satan"!

If you don't do it, it won't work, once that thing is smashed down, it will be more terrifying than Satan - the power of the single warhead model of the P-36 heavy ballistic missile even reaches 20 million ~ 25 million tons of TNT equivalent, and the power of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima was only about 15,000 tons, which is equivalent to the power of more than 1,600 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding together!

If it was smashed in New York, hehe......

Not to mention Manhattan, even Long Island probably doesn't want to leave a few living people!

Not only did it have a single warhead type, but the later improved multi-warhead type could carry 10 sub-guided warheads with a yield of 500,000 tons each, and one could be used as ten, while the US land-based intercontinental ballistic missile "Minuteman" 3 carried only three warheads with a yield of 335,000 tons.

Don't think about "Satan" here, even if there is, that kind of single warhead is estimated to weigh several tons, and it will not be moved back in front of Chamili and others.

20 million to 30 million tons of equivalent, even if it can be detonated, move back to blow up the earth to play?

As for the SS-20 missile that the captives said, it was the Soviet Union's fourth-generation two-stage solid-fuel multi-warhead maneuverable medium-range ballistic missile, which was codenamed "Sabre" in NATO.

The code name is also good, because this ballistic missile is really as sharp as a saber if it is to be used: it can be launched by a mobile launch vehicle, it can also be launched from an underground silo by preset, and if necessary, a third stage can be added to give it a strategic strike capability.

However, it was forcibly counted by the Soviets as a strategic nuclear missile, and in the eyes of the Soviets, any missile that could not easily hit the US mainland could not be counted as a strategic weapon.

That thing is super convenient and fast to use, the preparation time for launching from the transport-erection-launch vehicle is only 1 hour, if it is in the state of high alert in the underground shaft, it can be launched within 30 seconds, and the reaction speed is super fast!

When the "Pioneer" missile is asked to change its target, if the new target is within 1 to 2 degrees of the original launch azimuth, it only takes a few seconds to re-aim.

If the new target deviates from the original target at a large angle, it only takes 20-30 minutes to re-aim.

It began to be deployed in 1977, about 50 missiles were deployed every year, and by 1984, a total of 450 missiles had been equipped, which was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of NATO troops and countries throughout Europe, and there was no way to intercept it at all.

This ballistic missile has also set a record of "unprecedented and difficult for latecomers" - its reliability is super high, and in the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty" signed by the United States and the Soviet Union a few years ago, the United States mainly targeted this SS-20.

Talking on both sides, it ended up being a victim: all destroyed!

The Soviet Union's method of destruction was simple and crude: it launched all the missiles in stock, and the SS-20 officially retired from the stage of history when countless columns of smoke rose into the air.

The final curtain call of the SS-20 also set an amazing record for the successful launch of all of them!

It is a very convenient way to destroy, and if the missile is dismantled, the cost will be high, so it is better to shoot them all.

Similar methods have also been used in China, for example, during the self-defense and counter-attack war against Vietnam, it is said that this artillery preparation is often used several times the prescribed standard, because there are too many stocks, and many of them are close to the end of their life.

Instead of spending money and scrapping it at that time, it is better to go out and blow up a few more Vietnamese monkeys by the way!

Compared with the Chinese shells, the final curtain call of the Soviet SS-20 seems to be self-defeating and too poignant, but, in fact... It is widely believed that the signing of the "Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles," which entered into force in 1988, was the result of the Soviet Union's advantage, because the treaty required both the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce land-based cruise missiles and ballistic missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.

Historically, this treaty originated in the early 80s, when the United States deployed the Pershing-2 medium-range ballistic missile with a range of 1,800 kilometers and a land-based cruise missile with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers carrying nuclear warheads in the territory of some European NATO member states

The reason for this deployment of the United States was the РСД-70 (SS-10) medium-range ballistic missiles deployed by the USSR from the end of the 20s, which upset the Soviets.

At that time, the Soviet Union's medium-range ballistic missiles could not hit the United States at all, except for being launched from Chukchi and Kamchatka and reaching Alaska, while the medium-range missiles deployed by the United States in Western Europe could strike at the Soviet Union's deep territory.

For example, the Pershing-2 missile can reach the Moscow region when launched at its maximum range, while the land-based cruise missile can almost reach the Ural Mountains region of the Soviet Union.

In view of this geostrategic asymmetry, the Soviet Union was extremely interested in using a treaty to ban this class of missiles, while Washington, on the contrary, did not want to sign such a treaty at all, but under strong pressure from American society and NATO allies, who feared an intensification of nuclear confrontation on the European continent, the United States finally signed this treaty.

It should have been the Soviet Union: if the United States attacked Moscow with the "Pershing-2" ballistic missile deployed on the European continent, because of the short distance, the flight time of the missile is said to be only 6-7 minutes, and in this case, the Soviet leadership would not even have enough time to make up their minds to fight back or hide in an underground command post to escape!

Therefore, Moscow insisted that the content of the treaty would not limit the number, but that it would destroy all American intermediate-range missiles, and as a bargaining price, the Soviet Union would have to reach an agreement on the destruction of all weapons of the same class.

According to the treaty, the Soviet Union was to destroy twice as many weapons as the United States, 1,836 and 859, respectively.

Did the Soviets suffer?

No!

Because from a strategic point of view, even if the USSR destroyed ten times more than the United States, it would be advantageous for the USSR: it meant that for the USSR a component of the strategic nuclear threat disappeared, and for the US homeland, the treaty did not reduce any threat!

The Soviets' strategic nuclear missiles can still wipe out the whole world several times, not to mention you as an American!

The missile was released with fireworks, and of course the nuclear warhead had to be dismantled and destroyed slowly, or some of it could also be secretly stored, such as the one discovered by Shamili and others this time.

This will be asked about the SS-20 warhead, and the prisoner is also direct, "9 ordinary sub-warheads, 3 new 1 million tons of increased yield models."

A total of 6 missiles were removed from the missiles and transported to the warehouse for more than two years. Zhukov and I, the technician outside, modified two extra weights and four normal ones, which were able to start externally at regular intervals.

The first-stage neutron launch mechanism of the nuclear suitcase was used, and these six were in the garage, and the others were still dead bombs, and the top changed their minds, and they still thought that the suitcase was easy to handle, and it was a pity to dismantle it.

By the way, the dismantled suitcase is not here, it has been moved back to the warehouse. ”

Xia Mili can hear a few black lines!

1,000,000 tons, this blows up!

And - it's alive!

Kosygin asked again: "How many nuclear bombs are there here, and are they all live bombs except for those six?"

The captive nodded and said, "It's basically all live ammunition." In addition to these 9 high-yield nuclear bombs, there are also 8 nuclear suitcases, half each of Type 1 and Type 2, which can be used.

30 152-mm nuclear shells, 20 203-mm ones, and 12 50,000-ton tactical nuclear bombs for attack aircraft, which can be used with artillery and aircraft.

The 50,000-ton warhead used in the Oka missile has 20 rounds, but so far we have only modified 7 warheads. These are products within 10 years, and the shelf life is relatively long, so I think it is easier to sell. ”

The 9K714 Oka missile, which NATO gave the wrong name "Spider", is a tactical missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers, and is also listed among the ballistic missiles that must be destroyed by the INF Treaty.

Yes, the nuclear bombs here can blow up a small regional power!

Shamili's mind turned: the number is wrong, there are not so many boxes in the garage!

"There's not so much in the garage, where's the rest?"

"In the pickup truck in the yard, there are a total of 15 shells and three suitcases, which will be delivered to the buyer probably tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. ”

"Have you sold it before?"

"Just once, I sold ......"

After he finished speaking, Shamili felt that these people were all saints!

The quantity is right, the buyer is Alyosha, and this time everyone also intercepted the proliferation of nuclear bombs!

Grandma-yes, how many people have these people saved?