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Sony Terra's avatar

Great read dude. Really tho. 👏🏼 💯

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Mike Mihajlovic's avatar

Thank you

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Mike Mihajlovic's avatar

Thank you

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Sony Terra's avatar

You're very welcome Mike, great week to you!

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Shawn's avatar

Very good write up! Thank you

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A Skeptic's avatar

Thanks for your great work Mike!

We've shared the link on our daily report.

A Skeptic War Reports

https://askeptic.substack.com/

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Silvio Pires's avatar

Superb explanation, making a highly complex system understandable for those of us who are not conversant with battlefield systems requirements!

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Billy Masterson's avatar

I suspect your representative solid fuel would use powdered iron oxide as a catalyst rather than "iron oxide" (actual iron powder in contact with an oxidizer would OXIDIZE, changing characteristics of a fuel in storage!).

Your "typical" fuel likely also requires another .5% or more of carbon black as a "grain opacifier" to prevent light/infrared from the combustion front penetrating into an otherwise too transparent fuel grain, "feeding back" too much ignition energy to the unburned fuel and pre igniting additional fuel below the burn surface, this might quickly over pressurize and CATO a motor.

Otherwise, a pretty good synopsis!

For any interested, download a free PDF of "Ignition!" by John D. Clark here:

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

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S.P. Korolev's avatar

Such a great book! Pity it only covers liquid propellants, do you know of anything comparable covering solid propellants for the non-technically minded reader? The USSR did incredible things with liquids, like 'encapsulation' of liquid fueled ICBMs so they could sit in their containers for decades without maintenance. Solids seem to be the way to go for road mobile missiles and Russia seems to have mastered the technology to a similar degree.

It would be interesting to know what terminal guidance is used for Oreshnik. The article suggests that optical seekers are incompatible with high terminal speed, but radar seekers can penetrate the plasma should? Although if you wanted to mount a very large warhead on an Oreshnik and fire from a shorter range, the terminal speed should be similar to the Iskander and allow the use of its optical seeker.

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Kotanraju Via Znanje's avatar

Nice write up, as always! Have you any nose-to-nose comparisons with any NATO systems?

Hope all is well!

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Mike Mihajlovic's avatar

Thank you, I might do something soon but now the next is to assess Iskander and Patriot "interaction".

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Kotanraju Via Znanje's avatar

Ooohhhhh!

And hello the Aleks, hope the family is well.

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JG's avatar
Jun 7Edited

Always the best information; thank you!💙🇷🇺❤️🐈‍⬛ All the best to Aleks, family!

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John Day MD's avatar

Thank you for another thoroughly informative and easy to read explanation, of the Iskander missile systems, Mike.

I will post this link to my blog.

I also hope Aleks, his family and his busy job are doing well.

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David Aplin's avatar

A fascinating read! Thank you for sharing

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Sylvain's avatar

High quality article, as usual Mike !

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Tilly's avatar

This is brilliant as usual, many thanks for this excellent article!

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Mitja's avatar

Very informative. THANK YOU!!

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JJD's avatar

Some years ago, Russia had some promotional videos about a system called Club-K featuring cargo containers for transporting and launching cruise missiles. Was that Iskander-K?

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Paul O's avatar

I remember seeing a picture of the tail end of an Iskander with rearward ejecting decoys. Can you confirm that?

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Brenton's avatar

Good article and simple to understand to a non-techy person such as myself. I had heard that they were looking to extend the range of the Iskander to 1000 kms from 500, but was surprised to see unofficial 2000-2500 km. Still not surprised.

Not sure where it fits in the Russian order of battle. I thought perhaps with the CAG (Corp Artillery Group) or AAG (Army Artillery Group). Do you have any info on this?

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Mike Mihajlovic's avatar

The longer range is for Iskander-K, which is a cruise missile. Iskander-M is the ballistic missile. Both can be launched from the same launcher.

Iskanders are part of the artillery brigades and, compared to the US organization, they belong more to the AAG.

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Brenton's avatar

Thank you.

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