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Three Russian Yars mobile ICBM regiments to be put on combat duty in December.
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| Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:01 PM | |||
| Three Russian Yars mobile ICBM regiments to be put on combat duty in December | |||
According
to Russian state news agency Itar-Tass, Russia’s Strategic Missile
Forces (RSMF) by the end of the year will re-equip their three regiments
with the Yars mobile missile systems to be put on trial combat duty in
December, RSMF spokesman Major Dmitry Andreyev told on Tuesday, September
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 RS-24 Yars Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system |
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“By
the end of 2014, two more RSMF mobile regiments are planned to be equipped
with the Yars system - in the Tagil and Novosibirsk missile formations
and another stationary regiment - in the Kozelsk division. These three
regiments are to be put on trial combat duty in December 2014,”
he said.
According to Andreyev, with the re-equipment of a number of RSMF formations with Yars, the missile system’s share in these forces has already reached 50%. “Further plans for equipping other missile formations with the Yars system have already been made,” the RSMF spokesman added. The RS-24
Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a multiple warhead
was designed by the Moscow-based Institute of Thermal Technology. “This
missile was designed with the science and technology solutions applied
in the Topol-M missile system, which considerably cut the time and costs
for its creation,” Andreyev said. |
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