9K720 Iskander

Also known as Iskander, SS-26 Stone, Stone

mobile SRBM system

Key facts

Type: Short-range ballistic missile
Place of origin: Russia
In service: 2006–present
Used by: Russian Ground Forces , Armenian Armed Forces , Algerian People's National Army , Armed Forces of Belarus
Wars: Russo-Georgian War , Syrian Civil War , Second Nagorno-Karabakh War , Russo-Ukrainian war
Designed: From 1988
Manufacturer: Missiles: Votkinsk Plant State Production Association ( Votkinsk ), Ground equipment: Production Association Barricades ( Volgograd ), System developer: KBM ( Kolomna )
Unit cost: US$3 million (missile)
Mass: 3,800 kg (8,400 lb)
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
Engine: Single-stage solid propellant
Operational range: 400–500 km (250–310 mi) for Iskander-M
Guidance system: Iskander-M : INS + GLONASS + DSMAC , Iskander-K : INS + GLONASS + TERCOM
Launch platform: Mobile TEL

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Encyclopedic overview

The 9K720 Iskander (Russian: «Искандер»; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a family of Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile systems. The basic M model 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. 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.

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