ISKANDER-M (9K720 Iskander (Russian: Искандер) development and deployment

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Russia gave Belarus Iskander system that can carry nuclear weapons, Putin says

The President of Russia announced that on July 1 the construction of a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of the republic will be completed
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MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Russia has handed over to Belarus the Iskander missile system that is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and on July 1 it will complete the construction of a storage for tactical nuclear weapons on the republic’s soil, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Rossiya-24 TV channel.

"We have handed over to Belarus our well-known and very effective Iskander system that can carry [nuclear weapons]. On April 3, we will start training the crew and on July 1 we will complete the construction of a special storage for tactical nuclear weapons on the Belarusian territory," Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin.
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Was it? Did not see any solid rocket motors go off but still does not mean it is a decoy. Might want to give it time. This isnt the NFL.
 
Really impressive fragmentation pattern. There was a secondary in the tree line; posters on Telegram think it was a decoy and the fire is the generator that powered some of the signature enhancements, caught off guard by the wide area of fragmentation. We probably will not get confirmation either way.
 
The new Iskander "1000" exist too. With some modifications, larger SRM and (probaly for now only) nuclear warhead the new missile is supposed to have a 1000km range. So maybe somehow Arrow 3 makes a little sense now.
 
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It could be, difficult to say with the quality of the footage, the vehicle seems to change from one clip to the next but that might just be the shadow. But using a $3m missile to destroy a $4m rocket launcher that's already done tens of millions of $ damage in the last 3 days is a pyrrhic victory.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1823724823048007927
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823724823048007927

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823285673551380673
View: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1823285673551380673

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823674840190009727
View: https://x.com/UKikaski/status/1823674840190009727
 
More approriate question is how many they built ? Production run of hundreds/year in like 10 or more years do get cost low. Also if they share components with other systems, that will brought cost even lower.
 
The only cost that even partially pertains to Iskander that I found is that 2017 contract for 2 Iskander brigades. https://tass.com/defense/976880
20 billion rubles, in 2017 value, for 2 brigades. But we have no way of knowing what is included in "a brigade". Is it infrastructure? basing for the additional brigades? Vehicles should surely be included. Allegedly 51 various vehicles per brigade. How many missiles are included? There can be a whole range of missiles, depending on in-base reloads. 48? 96? 192? Less or more? What sort of missiles are included, as Iskander brigade uses 2 types of missiles.
In 2017 Ruble was roughly 0.012 for USD. Today it's closer to 0.018.
How much did price of weapons go up or down? No way to tell. We have just general inflation figures. (38 rubles today are worth like 20 in 2017) Which are likely not enough to make a good guess, considering various factors emerging since.
 
For calculation, you can take the largest MLRS missiles
It is not known what these prices are, because the domestic and export values differ by at least three times
 

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It’s really hard to equate defense procurement costs between a developed country with a hard, global reserve currency and a developing country with a “soft” currency. Turkey is a perfect example, with horrific inflation but a growing economy. The unit costs of some Turkish defense programs are unbelievably low in terms of actual hard currencies, but it really comes down to domestic production, which lowers the drain on foreign currency reserves, and low wage scales. That, and a level of efficiency that is unique to Turkey. Sometimes developing nations can be more efficient than their developed counterparts, albeit only in specific contexts.
 
To find out the cost of the Iskander missile, it is necessary to look for foreign supply contracts, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus
The cost of the 9M723K5 missiles of the 9K720 Iskander-M complex as of 2009, according to unconfirmed data, is 123.192.439 rubles (ist. - www.linux.org.ru ). $4,106,415I assume that this is the price of an export missiles, which can be safely divided into three
 
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Explosive Rhetoric: The Russian Missile At The Heart Of Yerevan Unrest

A dispute over the efficacy of Russian-made Iskander missiles is being blamed for a dangerous rift between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and the country’s military leadership.
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In early 2016, Armenia became the first country to buy Iskanders from Russia, purchasing at least four of the missile systems at an estimated cost of some $70 million-$100 million.
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The “Iskanders” cost the Armenian budget 70-100 million USD: Union of Informed Citizens

During the military parade dedicated to the 25th anniversary of independence of Armenia, the “Iskander” tactical missile systems were displayed among other military equipment. “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO has tried to gather information about those systems and their purchase. Price As it...
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However, according to the evaluations by different experts, one brigade of these systems costs 200-300 million USD. The brigade is composed of 12 launching systems. During the 25th anniversary parade in Yerevan, 4 launching systems were shown. Hence, we can assume that the “Iskanders” cost the Armenian budget 70-100 million USD.
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So that's $17.5-25m per unit. 2 missiles per unit at $3m leaves $11.5-19m for the launcher, which would be a ridiculously expensive launcher. Divide the costs in two for domestic and $3m per missile leaves $2.75-6.5m per launcher.
 
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12 launchers are 12 * 6.25 = 75 missiles * $4,106,415 = 307 981 125 $ - - only missiles
51 cars
And the Armenians did not receive them, there are only 4 launchers

3 million dollars per missile for export, according to unknown experts... All right, so be it, although the value of the contract is unknown
That is, the cost of a ballistic missile for the Russian Army is no more than 1.3 - 1.5 million $
 
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paralay said:
12 launchers are 12 * 6.25 = 75 missiles * $4,106,415 = 307 981 125 $ - - only missiles
51 cars
And the Armenians did not receive them, there are only 4 launchers

3 million dollars per missile for export, according to unknown experts... All right, so be it, although the value of the contract is unknown
That is, the cost of a ballistic missile for the Russian Army is no more than 1.3 - 1.5 million $
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Already at twice your first offer....
Well there still a lot of things we don't know like which capabilities are offered with the export systems (decoys)?
 
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Already at twice your first offer....
Well there still a lot of things we don't know like which capabilities are offered with the export systems (decoys)?
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That on that matter do we know something of iskander-k cost? Or Kalibr's? Because there a lot of discussion about it right now and atleast as its quite a problematic systems even ignoring its "sub 500km range (with a 400-500kg warhead)".
 
We know about baits that Iskander is quite effective without them. Therefore, after the upgrade, the baits are not set, but instead the accuracy of the hit has been increased. Also, the effectiveness of these missiles is clearly evidenced by the endless stream of NATO air defense systems going to Ukraine
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paralay said:
12 launchers are 12 * 6.25 = 75 missiles * $4,106,415 = 307 981 125 $ - - only missiles
51 cars
And the Armenians did not receive them, there are only 4 launchers

3 million dollars per missile for export, according to unknown experts... All right, so be it, although the value of the contract is unknown
That is, the cost of a ballistic missile for the Russian Army is no more than 1.3 - 1.5 million $
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Errrmmm... where are you getting 6.25 missiles per launcher from? It's 2 as standard.

paralay said:
We know about baits that Iskander is quite effective without them. Therefore, after the upgrade, the baits are not set, but instead the accuracy of the hit has been increased. Also, the effectiveness of these missiles is clearly evidenced by the endless stream of NATO air defense systems going to Ukraine
https://translate.google.ru/
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Proportional to the endless stream of missiles launched. I see more evidence of S-400s destroyed by ATACMS than Patriots destroyed by Iskander.
 

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