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9P120 Launcher with 9M76 rocket of missile complex
Temp-S
The TR-1 Temp was 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.
It was never sold or provided abroad and by the late 1980s it was destroyed under the INF treaty.
[edit] General characteristics
- Length: 12.0 m (39 ft 4)
- Diameter: 1.0 m (3 ft 3 in)
- Launch Weight: 9700 kg (9.55 long tons)
- Guidance: inertial
- Propulsion: single stage liquid
- Warhead: nuclear
- Range: 900 km (560 mi)
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[edit] References
- Hogg, Ian (2000). Twentieth-Century Artillery. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. ISBN 1-58663-299-X
