In particular, it is believed that the RS-26 Rubezh system was created on the basis of two stages of the Russian Topol-M missile. Previously, this approach was implemented in the USSR when creating ...

Russia began developing the project of a mobile strategic missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-26 Rubezh about 18 years ago. This happened in violation of the treaty on the ...

Russia's RS-24 Yars missile system conducts scheduled exercises in Mari El to enhance operational readiness and reinforce ...

The exact characteristics of the Rubezh missile are currently unknown. Among those that are quite possible are a launch weight of 40-50 tonnes, a range of up to 6,000 kilometres, and equipment in the ...

Is Oreshnik (RS-26 Rubezh) Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile what Russians claim it to be? Or is it more of a PR show? or both? We investigated this story, and the result is NotWhatYouThink ...

Russia has fired a new intermediate-range ballastic missile at Ukraine in what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called a “severe escalation” of Moscow’s invasion. Initally, Ukraine suggested an ...

Oreshnik is the term Russia uses for its new missile, which some sources suggest is merely a code name designed to intimidate the West by creating the impression that Russia possesses a new, unknown ...

In a press conference Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed the Oreshnik was based on the Rs-26 Rubezh, and Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said that the U.S. had been notified briefly ...

The Pentagon said the missile that Russia fired was based on the “RS-26 Rubezh” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It said the U.S. had been notified of the launch through nuclear risk ...

The Pentagon said it is based on the “RS-26 Rubezh” intercontinental ballistic missile ... (621 to 3,418 miles), a level below that of an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

The speed makes it extremely difficult to intercept for existing missile defence systems. The RS-26 Rubezh is designed to carry a warhead weighing up to 1,200 kilograms, a payload equivalent to ...