Silo-launcher facility is high security fortification, which consists of reinforced concrete hermetic cylinder with equipment compartment, where the ground equipment of missile start and equipment supply, which provides long support the missile in ready.
Also silo-launcher have 120-tonne cover safety device, necessary to ensure sealing a mine and protect the missile from the damaging effects of nuclear weapons.
In the mine was a container with a missile SS-24 «Scalpel» (NATO reporting name) (GRAU designations is RS-22A (15ZH60) «Molodets»).
Today, the possibility of using a unified command post and silo launchers eliminated, since some of the mechanisms dismantled, and a third shaft filled with concrete. (All this is done under the threat reduction programs and in accordance with the requirements of the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms).
Area of the silo-launcher facility with the UCP, except the guard room, transformer substation (which supplies power equipment), and automated security system, included in his still cooling center of silo facility, which provided temperature and maintained the readiness of all systems and missiles to and during the immediate start.
Directly to the mine through a system of depreciation was suspended container with a solid-fuel, 3-stage missile SS-24 «Scalpel» (NATO reporting name) (GRAU designations is RS-22A (15ZH60) «Molodets»), starting with a weight of 104.8 tons and a maximum firing range of over 10 000 km.
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