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Defence & Security News - Russia
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| Thursday, November
7, 2013 02:32 PM |
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| Army
of Russia to deploy more RS-24 Yar mobile ballistic missile by the end of
2013. |
Russia
will equipped two more regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF)
with
RS-24 Yars mobile ballistic missile systems by the
end of 2013, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday, November 7,
2013.
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“We are facing an important task – to preserve
the balance of the strategic deterrence system, which makes the maintenance
and timely re-equipment of the strategic nuclear forces a key area of
military development,” Shoigu said.
The SMF has so far fully equipped two regiments of the Teikovo Missile
Division in central Russia with RS-24
Yars systems.
The two regiments consist of a total of 18 missile systems and several
mobile command posts, according to the Defense Ministry.
Shoigu did not say where the new missiles will be deployed, but mentioned
that they will be first tested in the Novosibirsk Missile Division,
based in Siberia.
According to plans announced earlier by the Defense Ministry, the Novosibirsk
division is expected to receive mobile Yars systems, while the Kozelsk
division in central Russia will be armed with the silo-based version
of the system.
The RS-24
Yars missile system is armed with the RS-24 intercontinental
ballistic missile, which has considerably better combat and operational
capabilities than the Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin).
The SMF previously said the Topol-M
and RS-24
ballistic missiles would be the mainstays of the ground-based component
of Russia’s nuclear triad and would account for no less than 80
percent of the SMF’s arsenal by 2016.
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