R-26 (missile)
The R-26 (Russian Р -26) was a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile from the Cold War. Mistakenly, the rocket received the NATO reporting name SS -8 Sasin. The GRAU index 8K66 was.
The development work on the two-stage rocket ran from 1960 to 1962 until the program was canceled in favor of the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile R-36. No R-26 was ever ready to use. In November 1964 the dummy presented R- 26, which Western analysts was given the NATO code SS -8 Sasin on a military parade. She was confused with the Soviet missile R -9 Desna.