Russian "Satan" Missile: Why It Is Considered the Most Powerful in the World

The Russian Armed Forces are armed with the R-36M intercontinental ballistic missile, classified by NATO as SS-18 "Satan." It is capable of overcoming anti-missile defenses and hitting any point in the United States with at least ten thermonuclear warheads.

Military.com обозреватель Blake Stilwell called the Russian missile the most powerful in the world. It is noted that the modernized R-36M2 "Voevoda" missile is capable of hitting launch silos with LGM-30 Minuteman III missiles before they are launched.

The R-36M2 received a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV), which can carry ten warheads at once. The MIRV allows hitting multiple targets.

The basic version of the R-36M missile was adopted back in 1978. The missile can carry MIRV and single warheads. The maximum power of the thermonuclear charge is 25 megatons. In 1982, the R-36M was replaced by a more advanced R-36M UTTH missile.

Tactical and technical characteristics of "Satan":

• mass - 211 t

• length - 34.6 m

• diameter - 3 m

• number of stages - 2

• fuel - storable liquid

• fuel mass - 188 t

• launcher type - silo

• start type - active-reactive

• readiness - 62 sec

• warhead type - heavy single warhead

• warhead mass - 8.8 t

• maximum range - 16,000 km

• thermonuclear charge power - 25 Mt

• accuracy - 1000 m

• control system - inertial autonomous

Earlier, footageappeared online of the destruction of the M270 MLRS MLRS by a strike from the Iskander-M. The circular error probable of the 9M723-1 missile did not exceed 17 meters, which was quite enough to hit the MLRS with a fragmentation field.

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