Editing RT-2PM2 Topol-M (section)

{{Short description|Russian ICBM}}
{{Infobox weapon
|is_missile=yes
|name= Topol-M <br /> SS-27 "Sickle B"
|image=[[File:Испытательный пуск ракеты «Тополь-М» на космодроме Плесецк.webm|border|300px]] 
|type=[[Intercontinental ballistic missile]]
|caption=
|origin=Russia
|used_by=Russian [[Strategic Rocket Forces]]
|designer=[[Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology]]
|manufacturer=[[Votkinsk Plant State Production Association|Votkinsk Machine Building Plant]]
|unit_cost=
|propellant=
|production_date=December 1994–2010
|service=December 2000–present
|engine=Three-stage [[Solid-fuel rocket]]
|engine_power=
|weight= 47,200 kg (104,000 lb)
|length={{convert|22.7|m|abbr=on}}
|height=
|diameter={{convert|1.93|m|abbr=on}}
|wingspan=
|speed={{convert|7520|m/s|km/h mph Mach}}<ref name="Mputtre.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.mputtre.com/id19.html |title=Topol-M: Missile Defense Penetrator by Michal Fiszer |publisher=Mputtre.com |access-date=2011-05-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121230165047/http://www.mputtre.com/id19.html |archive-date=2012-12-30 }}</ref>
|vehicle_range={{convert|11000|km|abbr=on}}
|ceiling=
|altitude=
|filling= 1 x 1.0 Mt<ref name="sipri.org">[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sipri-yearbook-online-2011-9780199695522?cc=us&lang=en& SIPRI Yearbook Online 2011]</ref>
|guidance=[[Inertial guidance system|Inertial]] with [[GLONASS]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-threat-and-proliferation/missile-proliferation/russia/ss-27-topol-m/|title=Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance » SS-27 / Topol-M|last=www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org|website=missiledefenseadvocacy.org}}</ref>
|accuracy=200 m [[Circular error probable|CEP]]<ref name="Mputtre.com"/>
|detonation=
|launch_platform=Silo, road-mobile [[Transporter erector launcher|TEL]]
}}
[[File:19-03-2012-Parade-rehearsal - Topol-M.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[MZKT-79221]] Transporter erector launcher carrying missile container during rehearsals for the [[2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade]].]]
The '''RT-2PM2 «Topol-M»''' ({{langx|ru|РТ-2ПМ2 «Тополь-М»}}, [[NATO reporting name]]: '''SS-27 "Sickle B"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deagel.com/Ballistic-Missiles/Topol-M_a001014001.aspx |title=SS-27 Sickle B |publisher=Deagel.com |date=2011-03-10 |access-date=2011-05-23}}</ref>''', other designations: '''SS-27 Mod 1''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fas.org/blogs/security/2014/05/russianmodernization/|title=Russian ICBM Force Modernization: Arms Control Please!}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/207196/crowdsourcing-russian-icbms/|title=Crowdsourcing Russian ICBMs|website=www.armscontrolwonk.com}}</ref> '''RS-12M1''', '''RS-12M2''', formerly incorrectly '''RT-2UTTKh''')<ref name="janes1">[https://archive.today/20120904131630/http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jsws/jsws0463.html RS-12M1/2 Topol-M (SS-27/RT-2PM2) (Russian Federation), Offensive weapons]</ref> is one of the most recent [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s to be deployed by Russia,<ref>{{Cite web |title=RT-2PM2 Topol-M (SS-27 Mod 1 "Sickle B") |url=https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ss-27/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Missile Threat |language=en-US}}</ref> and the first to be developed after the dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]]. It was developed from the [[RT-2PM Topol]] mobile [[intercontinental ballistic missile]].

In its Russian designation '''РТ''' stands for "ракета твердотопливная", raketa tverdotoplivnaya ("solid fuel rocket"), while '''УТТХ''' – for "улучшенные тактико-технические характеристики", uluchshenniye taktiko-tekhnicheskie kharakteristiki ("improved tactical and technical characteristics"). "Topol" (тополь) in Russian means "[[populus alba|white poplar]]". It is designed and produced exclusively by the [[Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology]], and built at the [[Votkinsk Machine Building Plant]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/rt-2pmu.htm |title=RT-2PMU? – Topol-M SS-27 – Russian / Soviet Nuclear Forces |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=2011-05-23}}</ref><ref>[http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wmd/ballistic/ballistic/ss27-01.htm Land-Based Ballistic Missiles]{{dead link|date=May 2011}}</ref>