The SS missile designation

[Pyrrhos]

Do you know what the SS in front of, say, the SS-20 "Satan" stand for?

I do!




( This is where we who do know nod sagely to each other and shake our head sadly at those who do not. )

( PS. If you do not reply to this topic, it is taken as evidence that you do not know! )

 

[thetrooper]

Schutzstaffel?

 

[psweetman1590]

Surface to Surface?

As in, designed to be fired by ships at ships?

 

[Taras Bulba]

...SS-20 "Satan"...

wait... is that the SS-18 Satan or the SS-20 Saber??? I have never heard of SS-20 Satan.

As for the SS part.... Schutzstaffel are German Infantry known as the SS... so good guess, but i think that surface-to-surface is the right answer for a missile question.


Spoiler hides what an SS-20 that i found looks like..... look only if you really want to know...

Spoiler :

 

[Vind2]

Is this somehow related to civ? ?

 

[Pyrrhos]

I stand corrected. The "Satan" is indeed the SS-18 (that's the problem of doing things straight from memory - unless you're eidetic...)

Yes, it has something to do with Civ in a round-about sort of way -> http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/wrjp159r.html

 

[TheOverseer714]

I dimly remember from the cold war, the SS's were the USSR's big hitters, with up to 12 MIRV's. Do you know what MIRV means? I do <smug>

 

[Eltrai]

Didn't they use it for space payloads after the cold war ended? Of course it was the USSR's big ICBM developed back in the 70's....

If my old memory serves me it is surface to surface.

MIRV - Multiple Independanlty targetable Reentry Vehicle (multiple warheads each able to go their own way)

 

[Taras Bulba]

...Do you know what MIRV...

haha.... i can do this too... do you know what USSR means? haha, jk jk

but yeah, i would think a missile of that size would be a "big hitter"

 

[Padma]

Moderator Action: Thread moved - NOT Civ-related.

 

[Kozmos]

Isnt Satan the NATO designation?

 

[amadeus]

SS is the NATO designation for "surface-to-surface."

 

[ParkCungHee]

As for the SS part.... Schutzstaffel are German Infantry known as the SS... so good guess, but i think that surface-to-surface is the right answer for a missile question.

Shutzstaffel were not just infantry. There were numerous SS Panzer divisions (Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Viking, Hitlerjugend etc.) as well as Panzergrenadier divisions, Mountain Divisions and even Cavalry divisions. However, that was the Waffen-SS. Most of the SS never saw combat.

 

[Taras Bulba]

Shutzstaffel were not just infantry. There were numerous SS Panzer divisions (Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Viking, Hitlerjugend etc.) as well as Panzergrenadier divisions, Mountain Divisions and even Cavalry divisions. However, that was the Waffen-SS. Most of the SS never saw combat.

well, i am reading Night in my English class, and they refer to SS for the infantry, so i stand corrected