The missile liner was adopted by the Russian Navy. The Russian Navy adopted the new Liner missile
17:16 / 02.04.14
The Russian Navy adopted the new Liner missile
The Russian Navy has adopted the Liner intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) missile system.
It was developed by the Makeev State Rocket Center. New complexes will appear on Project 667BDRM nuclear-powered missile submarines.
R-29RMU2.1 “Liner” is a modification of the Russian Sineva ballistic missile for deployment on submarines, with new capabilities to overcome missile defense, as well as the ability to combine combat loads. Developed by OJSC GRC Makeeva and manufactured by OJSC Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant.
The first launch was made on May 20, 2011 at 18:00. 50 min. Moscow time, according to the state flight test program (R&D “Liner”) from the strategic nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet “Ekaterinburg” from the Barents Sea at the Kura combat range, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The launch was considered successful. The second launch was carried out on September 29, 2011 under the state flight test program (R&D “Liner”) from the Northern Fleet strategic nuclear submarine “Tula” from the Barents Sea at the Kura combat range. The launch was considered successful.
In October 2011, the missile tests were considered completed successfully and the missile was cleared for serial production and operation and recommended for adoption. It is planned that the Liner missile system will be adopted by the Northern Fleet.
The Russian Ministry of Defense plans that in the future all strategic nuclear submarines (BDRM "Dolphin" and BDR "Kalmar") will be re-equipped with modernized "Liner" ballistic missiles. Thanks to the re-equipment with the Liner, the existence of the northwestern group of Dolphin submarines can be extended until 2025-2030.
In February 2012, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, V. Vysotsky, stated that the Liner did not need to be accepted into service, since “it is an existing missile that is undergoing modernization.”
According to him, strategic submarines on combat duty in the World Ocean were the first to receive the upgraded missile, but in the future, all ships of projects 667BDRM "Dolphin" and 667BDR "Squid" will be re-equipped with the Liner.
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R-29RMU2.1 "Liner" - a modification of the Russian ballistic missile "Sineva" for deployment on submarines, with new capabilities to overcome missile defense, as well as the ability to combine combat loads
The Russian Navy has adopted the R-29RMU2.1 Liner ballistic missile. The new missile will be equipped with strategic nuclear submarines of the Dolphin project.
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The Liner missile was put into service at the beginning of 2014. The missile flight test program ended in October 2011. A total of two test launches of the rocket were carried out: on May 20 and September 29, 2011. They were considered successful, Interfax reports.
As expected, as part of the armament of submarines of the Dolphin project the new “Liners” will be used along with the modernized R-29RMU2 “Sineva” ballistic missiles. "Liner" is a modification of "Sineva" for placement on submarines, with new capabilities to overcome missile defense, as well as the ability to combine combat loads.
In particular, the missile head can be equipped with eight or ten low-power warheads or four medium-power warheads. In this case, warheads can be installed simultaneously with a set of means to overcome missile defense systems. The Liner rocket was developed at the Makeev State Rocket Center and manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant. The length of the "Liner" is about 15 meters, the diameter is 1.9 meters, and the launch weight is more than 40 tons.
The Liner missile system allows for salvo and single missile launches while moving at depths of up to 55 meters and at speeds of up to seven knots. By equipping the Dolphin-class submarines with Liner missiles, their service life will be extended at least until 2030.
Two successful test launches of the Liner submarine-launched ballistic missile carried out by the Russian Navy in 2011 caused a large stream of gossip and speculation in the media about what this missile was, since this topic had not previously been reported in the open press. Alexander Stukalin on the vif2ne.ru forum reports that a description of the work on the “Liner” topic is given in the just published official publication of the State Rocket Center named after Academician V.P. Makeeva": . Naval strategic missile systems. - M.: “Military Parade”, “GRC Makeev”, 2011. - 268 pp.; ill.
ISBN 5-902975-25-0(the book was signed for publication on August 10, 2011).
Verbatim quote from this publication:
«… EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WORK “LINER”
In 2011, joint flight tests were completed on the developmental development of the “Liner”, carried out in 2009-2011 in accordance with the State Defense Order. Based on the results of these tests and the conclusion of the Interdepartmental Commission, the design, operational and technological documentation was approved for serial production and operation.
Currently, serial production of three-stage launch vehicles, combat stages and on-board missile control systems is underway. R-29RMU2 "Sineva", which are fully unified with the R-29RMU2.1 "Liner" missiles. Liner missiles can be equipped with ten low-power warheads with anti-missile defense capabilities, or eight warheads of the same class, but with an additional set of countermeasures; or four medium-power warheads with anti-missile defense capabilities. In addition, Liner missiles can be equipped with a mixed set of warheads of different power classes.
The operation and combat readiness of any combination of missiles and their combat equipment on Project 667BDRM submarines is ensured by the upgraded shipborne digital computing system "Arbat-U2.1". The above means that the missile systems (“Sineva”, “Liner”) ensure the real possibility of the existence of the North-Western group of Project 667BDRM submarines for 35-40 years, that is, until 2025-2030. At the same time, the presence of multi-variant combat equipment will allow you to quickly respond to changing military-political circumstances<...>.
In the development work of "Liner", the new warhead was linked to the on-board control system and the missile. The new unit was put into service as part of the Topol-M-Yars land missiles; designed for installation on the Bulava-30 naval missiles under development; the tactical and technical specifications for the development of this unit provide for its use on R-29RMU missiles; the main developers of the warhead (nuclear ammunition): Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics.
The new warhead is installed on the R-29RMU2.1 (“Liner”) missile without any design changes through the use of cable inserts and adapters, as well as a specially designed individual installation platform mated with the standard missile seat. During the development process, the interaction of the on-board control system and the ammunition automation system was implemented and tested, and the software and mathematical support of the ship's digital computer system was improved. The planned amount of ground-based experimental testing was completed (five mock-ups, eight complex experiments), including an experiment in separating the block on a unique vacuum-dynamic stand under conditions of simulating weightlessness and in the absence of an atmosphere. The results of ground experimental testing were confirmed by flight tests.
The R-29RMU2.1 (“Liner”) missile is superior in energy and mass perfection to all modern strategic missiles from Great Britain, China, Russia, the United States and France, and in terms of combat equipment (four blocks of the middle power class) it is not inferior to a four-block one (under the conditions of START-3 ) American "Trident-2"..."