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was mounted on did not leave traces that could be seen from spy satellites, unlike the Gnom"s tracked chassis. MITT won the first choice, the Gnom was shown only once at a military parade on Red Square, to the astonishment of Western diplomats, to be cancelled out afterwards. The Temp was commissioned fast though higher payload and range requirements later led to the heavier Temp-S and Temp-2S versions.A distant leader in nuclear missile technology thanks to the Temp, MITT also became the only choice for what came to be known as the Pioner (SS-20 Saber), a three-nuclear-warhead Russian response to the U.S. Pershing I and Pershing II deployments in Europe. At a range of 5,500 km, its upgrade Pioner-UTTKh had such accuracy that it became one of the reasons for signing the bilateral Soviet-American Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987, which set the 5,500 km as the upper limit.
Thus MITT contributed to nuclear disarmament, with all its 1,752 deployed and
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