TR-1 Temp

TR-1 Temp
SS-12 Scaleboard

9P120 launcher with 9M76 rocket of missile complex Temp-S
Type Theatre ballistic missile
Place of origin  Soviet Union
Service history
In service 1969 - 1989
Used by Soviet Armed Forces
Production history
Designer Nadiradze OKB
Manufacturer Votkinsk Machine Building Plant
Specifications
Weight 9,700 kg (21,400 lb)
Length 12.4 m (41 ft)
Diameter 1.01 m (3 ft 4 in)
Warhead Single 500 kt warhead

Engine Single-stage liquid propellant
Operational
range
900 km (560 mi)
Guidance
system
Inertial
Accuracy 370 m (1,210 ft) CEP
Launch
platform
Road-mobile TEL

The TR-1 Temp is a mobile theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-12 Scaleboard and carried the industrial designation 9M76. 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) commanders nuclear strike capability. The weapon used the same mobile launcher (MAZ-543) as the R-11 Scud 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.

Operators

 Soviet Union
The Soviet Armed Forces were the only operator of the TR-1 Temp. It was also placed in countries of Warsaw Pact for example Hranice (39) in Czechoslovakia, and Königsbrück (19), Bischofswerda (8), Waren (22) and Wokuhl (5) in East Germany.[1] Its active reach from there covered whole West Germany, parts of Scandinavia, France and Netherlands.

See also

External links

References

  1. "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 - Memorandum of Understanding". State Department web site. Retrieved November 7, 2013.


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