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{{Infobox weapon
|is_missile=yes
|name=RT-2<br>SS-13 Savage
|image=
[[File:RT-2 (8K98) ICBM in Perm.jpg|250px|center]]
|caption=
|origin= [[Soviet Union]]
|type=[[Intercontinental ballistic missile]]
|used_by= Soviet [[Strategic Rocket Forces]]
|designer=
|manufacturer=
|unit_cost=
|propellant=
|production_date=
|service=1968-1976
|engine=Three-stage solid propellant
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|weight={{convert|45100|kg|abbr=on}}
|length={{convert|21.5|m|abbr=on}}
|height=
|diameter={{convert|1.7|m|abbr=on}}
|wingspan=
|speed=
|vehicle_range=10,000 km
|ceiling=
|altitude=
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|guidance=autonomous [[inertial guidance]]
|accuracy=Maximum error: 4 km, [[Circular error probable|CEP]]:  1900 m,
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|launch_platform=silo-based
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The '''RT-2''' was an [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] deployed by the [[Soviet Union]], which was in service from December 1968<ref name="energia"/> until 1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rt2.html|title=RT-2|first=Anatoly|last=Zak|work=RussianSpaceWeb|access-date=17 January 2012}}</ref> It was assigned the [[NATO reporting name]] '''SS-13 Savage''' and carried the [[GRAU index]] '''8K98'''. Designed by [[OKB-1]],<ref name="energia">{{cite web|url=http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/launchers/rocket-rt2p.html|title=Rocket RT-2P|publisher=RKK Energia|access-date=17 January 2012}}</ref> about 60 were built by 1972.

==History==
The RT-2 was the first solid-propellant ICBM in Soviet service, and was a development of the earlier RT-1 series. It was a three-stage inertially-guided missile comparable to the American [[Minuteman missile]]. It was armed with a single 600 [[kiloton]] [[warhead]] and was silo-launched, although a rail-based version was contemplated by Soviet planners. It was deployed in the [[Yoshkar-Ola]] missile field.

The Soviets used the two upper stages of the '''RT-2''' to develop the [[RT-15]] mobile [[IRBM]] system. The [[RT-2PM Topol]] is supposedly a modernized version of the '''RT-2'''{{citation needed|date=January 2012}}

==Operations==
The RT-2 was capable of delivering a {{convert|1200|lb|abbr=on|order=flip}} class payload to a maximum operational range of approximately 10,000&nbsp;km (5,500 nautical miles)<ref>Defense Intelligence Agency: "SS-13 Ballistic Missile System", 8 November 1973, DIA Task No. T74-10-03</ref>

===Command and Control===
A single [[Launch control center (ICBM)|launch control center]] (LCC) monitored numbers of launchers. The hardened and dispersed silo concept increased system survivability and provided steady environmental controls from the solid-propellant motors. Headquarters [[Strategic Rocket Forces|RVSN]] exercised normal control of the RT-2 missile force, through an intermediate RVSN Army and launch complex headquarters (HCC). A launch complex consisted of an HCC and several LCCs, monitoring numerous underground launchers.

==Flight test history==
===Test Launches===
{| border=1 style="border-collapse: collapse;"
|- style="background:#ccc;"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;"| '''RT-2 Test Launches'''
|-
!Date!!System!!Location!!Range (NM)!!Note
|-
| 26 Feb 1966 || RT-2 Mod || Kapustin Yar ||
|}

==General Characteristics==
[[Image:SS-13 Savage.jpg|right|thumb|350px|An RT-2]]

* Length: 20,000&nbsp;mm (65.6&nbsp;ft)
* Diameter: 1,700&nbsp;mm (5.57&nbsp;ft)
* Launch Weight: 34,000&nbsp;kg (33.46 tons)
* Guidance: [[inertial guidance]]
* Propulsion: solid, three-stage
* Warhead: 600kt nuclear
* Range: {{convert|10000|km|mi|abbr=on|order=flip}}

== Operators ==
; {{USSR}}:  The [[Strategic Rocket Forces]] were the only operator of the RT-2.

==Photo gallery==
<Gallery class="center">
File:RT-2 maximum range coverage of United States.PNG|RT-2 coverage of United States
File:RT-2 possible launch facility configuration.PNG|RT-2 launch facility configuration
File:RT-2 typical deployment complex.PNG|RT-2 missile complex configuration
</Gallery>

== See also ==
* [[RT-2PM Topol]]
* [[List of missiles]]
* [[Lists of rockets|List of rockets]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Hogg, Ian (2000). ''Twentieth-Century Artillery''. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. {{ISBN|1-58663-299-X}}
* [http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/launchers/rocket-rt2p.html S.P.Korolev RSC Energia Rocket RT-2P]

==External links==
{{Commons category|RT-2}}

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