9K720 Iskander SS-26 Stone | |
---|---|
![]() Iskander-M missile on the starboard erector arm of the 9P78-1 transporter erector launcher displayed at the «ARMY-2016» military-technical forum | |
Type | Short-range ballistic missile |
Place of origin | Russia |
Service history | |
In service | 2006–present[1] |
Used by | Russian Ground Forces Armenian Armed Forces Algerian People's National Army Armed Forces of Belarus |
Wars | Russo-Georgian War Syrian Civil War[2] 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War Russian invasion of Ukraine |
Production history | |
Designed | From 1988 |
Manufacturer | Votkinsk Plant State Production Association (Votkinsk) – missiles Production Association Barricades (Volgograd) – ground equipment KBM (Kolomna) – developer of the system |
Unit cost | US$3 million (missile)[3] |
Specifications | |
Mass | 3,800 kg (8,400 lb)[4] |
Length | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
Diameter | 0.92 m (3 ft 0 in) |
Warhead | 480–700 kg (1,060–1,540 lb) thermonuclear weapon, high-explosive fragmentation, submunition, penetration, fuel–air explosive, EMP[5][1] |
Engine | Single-stage solid propellant |
Operational range | 400–500 km (250–310 mi)[6][7] for Iskander-M |
Maximum speed | 2,000 m/s (Mach 5.9) burn-out velocity (hypersonic)[8] |
Guidance system | Inertial guidance, optical DSMAC (Iskander-M), TERCOM (Iskander-K), use of GPS / GLONASS in addition to the inertial guidance system[9] Inertial, use of GPS / GLONASS and optical DSMAC terminal homing |
Accuracy | (9K720) 1–30 metres (3.3–98.4 feet) (Iskander-M) 5–7 metres (16–23 feet) |
Launch platform | Mobile TEL |
The 9K720 Iskander (Russian: «Искандер»; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile system. It has a range of 500 kilometres (270 nmi; 310 mi). It was intended to replace the OTR-21 Tochka in the Russian military by 2020.
The Iskander has several different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions. The missile can also carry nuclear warheads.[10][11][12] In September 2017, the KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM) general designer Valery M. Kashin said that there were at least seven types of missiles (and "perhaps more") for Iskander, including one cruise missile.[13]
The missile is designed for mobile, autonomous operation and is capable of striking point and area targets at ranges of 50 – 280 km. (The M version is believed to have a range of 400 km).