SS-20 "Saber" - Washington, D.C.
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N 38° 53.311 W 077° 01.188
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This missile is located in the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Waymark Code: WMN4B5
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 12/24/2014
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This Soviet missile in the National Air & Space Museum is on display and paired with an American Pershing-II missile. The placard accompanying the missile indicates that Soviets deployed them at 48 bases. But the INF Treaty calls for all of them to be elimintaed. This particular one was a training missile.
Wikipedia (
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"The RSD-10 Pioneer ... was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead deployed by the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1988. It carried GRAU designation 15Zh45. Its NATO reporting name was SS-20 Saber.
Its deployment was a major cause of the NATO's 'Double-Track Decision', which led to the deployment of more medium-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe. The RSD-10 was withdrawn from service under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty."