Ukraine has previously acknowledged improvements that Russia has made to increase the maneuverability of its ballistic ...

Summary and Key Points: The Russian 9K720 Iskander missile system, known as the SS-26 Stone by NATO, has been a significant concern for U.S. and NATO war planners since its ...

The 9K720 Iskander-M—known in NATO parlance as the SS-26 Stone—is a potent short-range ballistic missile. While export versions of the missile have a range of 280 kilometers and payload of ...

The Mach 5.9 missile, known to NATO as the SS-26 Stone and to Russia as the 9K720 Iskander (“Alexander the Great”), has a range of 500 km (310 miles) and can hit with great precision ...

Russia’s Missile Troops and Artillery (MT&A) will be completely rearmed with the 9K720 Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile system in 2019, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement on ...

The 9K720 Iskander is a mobile short-range ballistic missile system produced and deployed by the Russian military. It can travel up to seven times the speed of sound at an altitude of 30 miles and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sold nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to Belarus, his ally in the war on Ukraine. The deadly 9K720 Iskander short-range ballistic missiles are capable of ...

One of Russia’s few out-and-out allies, Belarus has purchased an unknown number of 9K720 Iskander short-range ballistic missiles. The Iskanders’ warheads can utilize everything from cluster ...

North Korea tested what appears to be a ballistic missile system that resembles the Russian-designed 9K720 Iskander-M on 4 May. Pyongyang described it as a “tactical guided weapon”.

It can be armed with variety of different warheads for that purpose. The total number of 9K720 Iskander-M missile systems currently deployed in the RGF is estimated to be over 100.

The Russian military has test fired the short-range nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander-M (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) ballistic missile during a large-scale military exercise in Russia’s Far ...