Missile Forces of the USSR (1967-1979)

RT-15 mobile missile systems march to a firing position during exercises.

View through the windshield of the driver's cabin, faces of the drivers.

Mobile missile systems drive through a forest on an off-road surface.

Faces of the crew members of one of the installations, the driver at the levers.

A mobile missile system drives out to a clearing to take up a firing position.

The battalion commander gives the command to bring the RT-15 medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to combat readiness.

Bringing the ICBM to combat readiness.

Panorama of a forest clearing, an ICBM in combat readiness, covered with tree foliage (panorama).

Panorama of a forest clearing, a camouflage hill with bushes starts to move to the side.

Opening of missile silos.

Intercontinental ballistic missile in a silo.

View of the lower part of the missile.

View of the missile in the silo.

Upper parts of the missile and silo.

GAZ-69 vehicles drive through a forest.

Vehicles drive through a forest clearing.

Vehicles drive through a tunnel leading to the control center.

View of part of the tunnel.

A military traffic controller indicates the route along the tunnel.

Vehicles drive through the tunnel.

Elevator buttons.

Missile officers of the next shift go down in the elevator.

Officers walk along the corridor.

Arrival of the duty shift of operators at the control center.

Officers at the control panel replace each other.

Officers switch the toggle switches on the panels, check their operation, the faces of the officers and the shift supervisor.

The inscription announcing the duty mode lights up.

The lights on the panel and the officers' faces light up.

The antenna of the air target detection system is rotating.

A motorcade of the Strategic Missile Forces unit is on the march.

The motorcade enters the gates of an underground concrete bunker.

The face of a sentry standing at his post.

A railway missile complex enters an underground bunker, a view of the camouflaged upper part of the bunker.

Desert and forest landscapes.

Panorama of a forest clearing, a camouflaged hill with bushes begins to move to the side.

A view of the upper part of a ballistic missile in a silo.

The lights on the control panel come on, the face of the duty officer giving the command to launch the missile.

An intercontinental ballistic missile during launch.

Missiles taking off from silos.

A colonel general watches the missile in flight through binoculars.

A missile takes off from a silo in the middle of the taiga.

A view of the antenna of the target detection system.

The face of one of the duty officers.

A view of a missile in a silo (from bottom to top).

Missiles in silos.

Automatic ejection of the silo hatch.

Missile launch.

Opening the hatch of a missile silo.

Launch of a missile, duty officer at the control panel during the launch.

Scheme of the action and destruction of targets by an intercontinental ballistic missile (animation).