The K-51 Verkhoturie submarine of the Project 667BDRM/Delta IV class, which began overhaul in August 2010, will not return to active service until the end of 2012.
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The K-51 Verkhoturie submarine of the Project 667BDRM/Delta IV class, which began overhaul in August 2010, will not return to active service until the end of 2012.
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These missiles (16) and warheads (64) counted as deployed or not ?
No, New START would not count these as operationally deployed.
So,how many other boomers counted as undeployed?
It's hard to know exactly. Some are in and out of active service. For example, Ekaterinburg submarine was moved to a floating dock recently.
Nuclear Notebook stated 100kt for a SS-N-23, but you stated 75kt for SS-N-20. I want to know yield of the SS-N-23 warhead. And I've read on this site that Sineva have (probably) new warhead-is this true? And what about Liner?
R-29RM warhead could be about 300kt - the throw-weight of the missile allows it. Sineva would probably have the same warhead. But not Liner - since it could carry about ten warheads, they would be smaller - maybe about 75-100 kt.
50kt -this is seven-warhead SS-N-18 as i understand.-right? Do you have a data on the SS-N-6 and SS-N-8 warheads?
Warheads on SS-N-23 very most likely 150 kt in yield. Even for R-36M2 GRV 4*0.8Mt+4*0.15Mt have been considered,but as 8.3mt and 20Mt have been canceled ,probably via perestroika.This is most likely a targeting question,not payload.Its very unlikely that Soviet SLBms were aimed on the hard targets.