R-14 Chusovaya
1960s theater ballistic missile of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces
The R-14 Chusovaya (Russian: Р-14 Чусовая, named for the Chusovaya river) was a single stage Intermediate-range ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was given the NATO reporting name SS-5 Skean and was known by GRAU index 8K65. It was designed by Mikhail Yangel. Chusovaya is the name of a river in Russia. Line production was undertaken by Facility No. 1001 in Krasnoyarsk.
Overview
Development of the R-14 began by directive on 2 July 1958 at OKB-586 in Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro, Ukraine). The preliminary design was completed in December 1958, with flight tests beginning in June 1960 and completed in February 1961. The missile was accepted into service on 24 April 1961; initial operational capability for the first division of four launchers was achieved on 31 December 1961, with the first regiment organized the next day. By the end of 1962 two regiments were fully operational in Ukraine and Latvia, with later surface launch pad sites in Kaliningrad and Belarus.
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