| Statistic. | Data. |
|---|---|
| Type. | Ballistic missile. |
| Height. | 34 m (112 ft). |
| Diameter. | 3.02 m (9.9 ft). |
| Weight. | 280 metric tons (280 long tons; 310 short tons). |
| Warhead. | An unclassed nuke. |
| Warhead yield. | 1x3Mt or 1x 2.9mt. |
| Accuracy (CEP). | Around 5 km (3.1 mi). |
| Speed. | N/A, but probably typical of it's class and era. |
| Steering. | 12x vernier thrusters arranged around the booster clusters and the core engines. |
| Nationality. | USSR. |
| Made by. | OKB-1. |
| Guidance system. | Inertial guidance with radio control of vernier thrusters for launch. |
| Range. | 8,800 km (5,500 mi). |
| First made. | Made for the military on 9th, February, 1959. First civil use was on 27 April 1958. |
| Retied on. | 1968. |
| Engines. | 1st stage: 4x jettisonable four-chamber RD-107 booster engines each with 2x vernier rocket engines plus 1x four-chamber RD-108 core engine with 4x vernier rocket engines. 2nd stage: 1x four-chamber RD-108 core engine with 4x vernier rocket engines. RD-107 4x 907.4 kN (203,992 lbf) RD-108 1x 907.4 kN (203,992 lbf) Vernier 12x 38.259 kN (8,601 lbf). |
| Thrust. | N\A. |
| Sources. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_Semyorka and http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/31429-weapons-that-changed-the-world-r-7-missile-video.htm. |
R-7 Semyorka ICBM (Р-7 Семёрка индекс ГРАУ-8К71)
I should be sleeping, but launching nukes is just too much FUN!
Soviet R 7 Semyorka ICBM launch
Soviet R 7 Semyorka ICBM launch.
The widely used nickname for the R-7 launcher, "semyorka", means "the 7" in the Russian language.
In modified form, it launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit, and became the basis for the R7 family.