9K720 Iskander

For Iskander (disambiguation), see Iskandar.

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
TypeShort-range ballistic missile
Place of originRussia
Service history
In service2006–present[1]
Used byRussian Ground Forces
Armenian Armed Forces
Algerian People's National Army
Armed Forces of Belarus
WarsRusso-Georgian War
Syrian Civil War[2]
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Production history
DesignedFrom 1988
ManufacturerVotkinsk Plant State Production Association (Votkinsk) – missiles
Production Association Barricades (Volgograd) – ground equipment
KBM (Kolomna) – developer of the system
Unit costUS$3 million (missile)[3]
Specifications
Mass3,800 kg (8,400 lb)[4]
Length7.3 m (24 ft)
Diameter0.92 m (3 ft 0 in)
Warhead480–700 kg (1,060–1,540 lb) thermonuclear weapon, high-explosive fragmentation, submunition, penetration, fuel–air explosive, EMP[5][1]
EngineSingle-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]

  1. ^ a b "Iskander (SS-26)". CSIS Missile Threat. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Tłumacz Google". Риа Новости. 22 December 2017.
  3. ^ Landa, Volodymyr; Gnenny, Konstantin (27 June 2022). Росія за вихідні випустила по Україні ракет вартістю близько $200 млн. [Over the weekend, Russia launched missiles worth about $200 million over Ukraine.]. Forbes (in Ukrainian) (Ukraine ed.). ISSN 0015-6914. OCLC 6465733. Archived from the original on 6 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024. Для розрахунку вартості цих ракет Forbes використовував такі оцінки: вартість ракети Х-101 – $13 млн, «Калібр» – $6,5 млн, «Іскандер» – $3 млн, «Онікс» – $1,25 млн, Х-22 – $1 млн, «Точка-У» – $0,3 млн. [To calculate the cost of these missiles, Forbes used the following estimates: the cost of the X-101 missile - $13 million, "Kalibr" - $6.5 million, "Iskander" - $3 million, "Onyx" - $1.25 million, X-22 - $1 million, "Point-U" - $0.3 million.]
  4. ^ a b Pike, John (8 August 2018). "9K720 Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) - Specifications". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  5. ^ Pike, John; Vick, Charles; Jacubowski, Mirko; Garrett, Patrick (3 September 2000). "Iskander/SS-26". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  6. ^ Mashynostroeniya, KB (20 June 2006). "Iskander M/E (SS-21 / SS-26)". Defense Update. No. 2. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2024. 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).
  7. ^ "Ударная Сила: Ракетная паутина (оперативно-тактический ракетный комплекс 9К720 "Искандер" SS-26 "Stone") » RNNS.RU". Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  8. ^ "MilitaryRussia.Ru — отечественная военная техника (после 1945г.) - Статьи". Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Дмитрий Рогозин: "Искандеры" будут размещены в Калининграде". Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  10. ^ Pike, John (25 September 2023). "9K720 Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) - Development". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  11. ^ Pike, John (25 September 2023). "9K720 Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone)". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 15 April 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  12. ^ "NATO Members Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Missile Deployment". 17 December 2013. Archived from the original on 30 July 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  13. ^ Ракетный комплекс "Искандер-М" получил новые типы ракет. Archived 14 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine. TASS, 14 September 2017.