Command Missile System (15P011) Perimeter System (15E601) with 15A11 missile

After ground testing of new technical solutions in 1979 the command missile LKI began. At NIIP-5, and sites 176 and 181, were put into operation two experimental mine PU. In addition, on site 71 was created a special command post, equipped with a newly developed unique combat control equipment to provide remote control and launch the command rocket on orders received from the highest control of the Strategic Missile Forces. At a special technical position in the assembly building, a shielded anechoic chamber equipped with equipment for autonomous inspection of the radio transmitter was erected.

Flight tests of the 15A11 missile (see layout chart) were conducted under the leadership of the State Commission, headed by Lieutenant General V. Korobushin, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces.

The first launch of the command missile 15A11 with the transmitter equivalent was successfully held December 26, 1979. Were checked the developed complex algorithms of interfacing all systems involved in the launch, the possibility of providing the missile with a given trajectory of flight 15B99 GC (the top of the trajectory at an altitude of about 4000 km, range 4500 km), the work of all service systems GC in normal mode, confirmed the correctness of technical decisions.

10 missiles were set aside for flight tests. In connection with successful launches and fulfillment of tasks, the State Commission found it possible to be satisfied with seven launches.

In the course of Perimeter system tests, real launches of 15A14, 15A16, 15A35 rockets were made from combat objects under orders given by 15B99 SGC in flight. Preliminary, additional antennas and new receivers were mounted on the PA of these missiles. All the boosters and command posts of the Strategic Missile Forces subsequently underwent these modifications.

The 15P716 launcher is a silo-based, automated, high-security, "OS" type launcher.

Along with the flight tests, ground testing of the entire complex was carried out under the conditions of the impact of the nuclear explosion at the test site of the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, in the test laboratories of VNIIEF (Arzamas), at the nuclear test site Novaya Zemlya. The conducted tests have confirmed the operability of the equipment of SU and SSC at the levels of influence of the nuclear explosion, exceeding the specified in TTT MO.

Even during the flight tests, the government's resolution set a task to expand the functions of the command missile system to bring combat orders not only to the Strategic Missile Forces facilities, but also to strategic missile submarines, long-range and maritime missile-carrying aircraft at airfields and in the air, control points of the Strategic Missile Forces, Air Force and Navy.

The command missile LCIs were completed in March 1982. In January 1985 the complex was put on combat duty. For more than 10 years the complex of command missiles successfully fulfilled its important role in the defense capabilities of the state.

In the framework of the START-1 agreement in June 1995 the command missile system was taken off duty.

Many enterprises and organizations of different ministries and departments took part in creation of the complex. The main of them: NPO "Impulse" (V.I.Melnik), NPO AP (n.A.Pilyugin), KBSM (A.F.Utkin), CCBM (B.R.Aksyutin), MNIIRS (A.P.Bilenko), VNIIS (B.Y.Osipov), CCB "Geophysics" (G.F.Ignatyev), NII-4 MO (E.B.Volkov).