RS-12M Topol Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from Kapustin Yar testing ground. September 11, 2016 - The Russian Strategic Missile Forces have conducted a successful test launch of a RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry said Friday. According to the ministry, the missile, launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia has hit a designated target on the Kamchatka peninsula "with high precision." The RS-12M Topol is a single-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile, which entered service in 1985. It has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 550 kilotons. On 28 November 2019 Russian Strategic Missile Troops performed a missile test with a suborbital launch of a RS-12M Topol missile from Kapustin Yar. The test was successful. The Topol will eventually be replaced by the road-mobile version of the Topol-M missile. US Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center estimating that as of June 2017 about 100 launchers were operationally deployed. Variants Start-1 – a commercial space launch vehicle derived from the missile. Operators The Strategic Missile Troops are the only operator of the RT-2PM Topol. As of March 2020, 36 road-mobile RT-2PM Topol missiles are deployed with: 35th Rocket Division at Barnaul 7th Guards Rocket Division at Vypolzovo Former operators 39th Guards Rocket Division (Pashino, Novosibirsk Oblast) See also Strategic Missile Troops RT-2PM2 Topol-M RS-24 Yars RS-26 Rubezh RS-28 Sarmat R-36 (missile) UR-100N LGM-30 Minuteman Agni-V DF-5 DF-41 References Podvig, Pavel. (2001) Russian Strategic Nuclear Force. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. External links CSIS Missile Threat - SS-25 "Topol" kapyar (in Russian) Russian Nuclear Forces, 2005, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2005, pp. 2 Globalsecurity.org SS-25 info RT-002PM Cold War intercontinental ballistic missiles of the Soviet Union Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1985 RT-002PM Votkinsk Machine Building Plant products