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In 2016 the Kh-32 missile was officially accepted into service. [ citation needed ] Russia has planned modernization of 30 Tu-22M3 aircraft into the Tu-22M3M version. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 19 April 2024, Ukraine claimed to have shot down two Kh-22/32s for the first time during the war. [ 4 ]
NATO reporting name for AS series air-to-surface missiles, with Soviet designations: Note: The Soviet / Russian designation is a Cyrillic letter " Х ", which is translated as "Kh" or "H". Also, sometimes a combination ("complex") of a missile with its aircraft is marked with a letter "K" (for example, a missile Kh-22 with an aircraft is a ...
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The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile started test operations in December 2017 and has been deployed since 2018. [5] On 27 December 2019, TASS reported that the first missile regiment armed with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle officially entered combat duty. [6] As of 2020, the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile was still under development.
Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
The following list of nuclear triads, deployed in 2024, includes all four countries known to possess them (United States, Russia, China and India). Where available, the names and number of nuclear warheads are given. The list excludes non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons and the partial nuclear triad of France and Pakistan.
R-15 submarine ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (NATO name SS-7 Saddler) R-17E, variant of Russian Scud B; R-21 submarine-launched ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (SS-N-5 Serb) R-23 (AA-7 Apex) R-26 intercontinental ballistic missile (USSR; Cold War) (mistakenly applied NATO name SS ...
An atomic veteran is a veteran who was exposed to ionizing radiation while present in the site of a nuclear explosion during active duty.The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs defines an atomic veteran "who, as part of his or her military service: Participated in an above-ground nuclear test, 1945–1962; or was part of the U.S. military occupation forces in/around Hiroshima/Nagasaki before ...