Alexander Nadiradze
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Alexander Davidovich Nadiradze ' onMouseout='HidePop("12758")' href="/topics/Gori,_Georgia">Gori
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 - 3 September 1987, Moscow
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) was a famous Soviet
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 missile engineer. He was the main designer of the first Soviet mobile ICBM RT-21 Temp 2S
RT-21 Temp 2S
The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

 (SS-16), intermediate range ballistic missile RSD-10 Pioneer (SS-20) and RT-2PM Topol (SS-25). Modern RT-2PM2 Topol-M
RT-2UTTH Topol M
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 and RS-24
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 missiles design is mostly based on Nadiradze's projects as well.

Prior to the Great Patriotic war, Alexander Nadiradze worked on development of air cushion landing gear
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 for aircraft. This gear was tested on Yakovlev UT-2
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 trainer aircraft.

During the war, he created several anti-tank missiles. In 1966, Nadiradze won the Ministry of Defence tender for the mobile ICBM. Temp 20 (later RT-21 Temp 2S
RT-21 Temp 2S
The RT-21 Temp 2S was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-16 Sinner and carried the industry designation 15Zh42....

) became the Soviet Union's first mobile ICBM which was put into service in 1976.

In 1971, the RSD-10 IRBM creation began. This mobile missile became operational on 11 March 1976. The same year Nadiradze was granted with Hero of Socialist Labour and the Order of Lenin
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.

Alexander Nadiradze was an author of more than 100 scientific works and 220 knowhows. In Russia
Russia
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, he is widely regarded as a founder of mobile missiles design.

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