Р-5 "Победа": Первая советская баллистическая ракета с ядерным зарядом

The R 5 Pobeda (Побе́да, "Victory") was a medium range ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The upgraded R 5M version, the first Soviet missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, was assigned the NATO reporting name SS 3 Shyster and carried the GRAU index 8K51. The R 5 was developed by OKB 1 as a single stage missile with a detachable warhead reentry vehicle. The R 5M was a nuclear armed missile with greater payload and weight entered service in March 1956, was deployed along the western and eastern Russian borders, and in 1959 was installed in East Germany, the first Soviet nuclear missile bases outside the USSR. The missile was retired in 1967, superseded by the R 12. In 1958, R 5A rockets were used to launch pairs of dogs to altitudes above .

The R 5 was a single stage Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) with a range of Using 92% ethanol for fuel and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer, the rocket had a dry weight of (fueled, ) and carried a detachable reentry vehicle with a payload capacity of Quickly upgraded to the nuclear capable R 5M, this missile was just under long and in diameter, had a dry weight of (fueled, ), and carried a payload. The R 5 had an accuracy of downrange and cross range from the aim point, substantially greater than that of the R 1 and R 2 missiles. With its range (five times that of the R 1; more than twice that of the R 2), accuracy, and atomic armament, the R 5M was the Soviet Union's first real strategic missile,