WORLDS MOST POWERFUL NUCLEAR MISSILE ever built Russian SS-18 Satan can carry 10 Nuclear Bombs

The R-36, (Russian: Р-36) is a family of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and space launch vehicles designed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The original R-36 was produced under the Soviet industry designation 8K67 and was given the NATO reporting name SS-9 Scarp. The later version, the R-36M was produced under the GRAU designations 15A14 and 15A18 and was given the NATO reporting name SS-18 Satan. This missile was viewed by certain U.S. analysts as giving the Soviet Union first strike advantage over the U.S., particularly because of its very heavy throw weight and extremely large number of re-entry vehicles. Some versions of the R-36M were deployed with 10 warheads and up to 40 penetration aids and the missile's high throw-weight made it theoretically capable of carrying more warheads or penetration aids. Contemporary U.S. missiles, such as the Minuteman III, carried up to three warheads at most. The R-36 (SS-9) is a two-stage rocket powered by a liquid bipropellant, with UDMH as fuel and nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer. It carries one of three types of re-entry vehicles (RVs) developed especially for this missile: The Mod 1 and Mod 2 carried single nuclear warheads of 18 and 25 megatons (mt) of TNT yield respectively. The Mod 4 carried three re-entry vehicles (MRV). An additional version, the Mod 3, was proposed (it was to be a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), a missile that travels through space in a low-earth orbit), but was not adopted due to the Outer Space Treaty. The R-36P missile was developed to carry the Mod 4 warhead, while the R-36O (the letter O) was to be for the Mod 3 FOBS. R-36 and R-36P missiles were hot launched from their silos. The R-36M (SS-18) is similar to the R-36 in design, but has the capacity to mount a MIRV payload of 10 warheads, each with a 550--750 kt yield, or a single warhead of up to 20 mt. Throw-weight of the missile is 8,800 kg. This makes the Soviet R-36 the world's heaviest ICBM; for comparison, the heaviest US ICBM (the retired LGM-118 Peacekeeper, that carried 10 warheads of 300 kT each) had less than a half of this at 4,000 kg. The R-36M has two stages. The first is a 460,000 kgf (4.5 MN) thrust motor with four combustion chambers and nozzles. The second stage is a single-chamber 77,000 kgf (755 kN) thrust motor. (text from Wikipedia)

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1. let's pray for whole world
2. How much ? Where can I buy this ? I need one.
3. I hope I can get to Mars before they clean up Earth. I'll come back after it get purified (both literally and metaphorically).
4. God bless russian more and more they protecting us from USA martial law believe me or not, am from Ethiopia
5. LOL the ss-18 is a nothing but a piece of shit also the us trident ll d-5 can carry 16 w88 nuclear warheads much better than russias shitty ss-18
6. nic
7. death to Babylon
8. so thats where my science project went
9. Is it going to Europe? YAY!!
10. Yeah, but does it get wifi?
11. search it up its a fact
12. actually, the funny thing is, the strongest nuclear weapon in the world is the American made peacekeeper, it can carry approximately 11-12 warheads. it so strong in fact the Russians were so scared they made a treaty with us to never launch them at them, but then they paranoid enough they advanced the treaty with us and pretty much begged us to get rid of them!
13. boring, some goofy Russian trying to let us know his county is #1 as it struggles to keep its economy from collapsing more.
14. sucks, boring
15. Drop this off at the middle east mate
16. geraet
17. nuk fasist west
18. The tip needs to be pointy sez general aladeen
19. there's no explosions
20. This bomb put your ass hole.. Shit world.bloody mind peoples live here in earth.cheeee cheee