when was the first icbm created
The first Soviet ICBM, the R-7 (US designation SS-6 Sapwood) was created by the Korolev design bureau in 1957; in 1960 its. modification, the SS-7A, was deployed. Almost simultaneously, the Yangel design bureau created the R-16 ICBM the first silo-. based ICBM; deployment began in 1963. The Korolev design bureau created one more ICBM, the R-9A, which was adopted for. deployment in 1965, but deployment was limited.