Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) continue rearmament to new missile systems. According to Viktor Fotyuk, head of the Strategic Missile Forces combat training department, until the end of this year at the complexes “yars” two regiments of the Barnaul division of the Strategic Missile Forces will be rearm.
This year will be rearmament to the missile system “yars” two more mobile-based missile regiments of the Barnaul compound
– told Fotyuk in an interview with the newspaper “a red star”.
According to him, Strategic Missile Forces is working on the re-equipment of the group with new missile systems, including the latest “avant-garde”.
December 2019 years, the first missile regiment in the village of Dombarovsky, Orenburg Region, with the latest complex, took up combat duty “avant-garde”
– noted Fotyuk.
Colonel General Sergei Karakaev, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, had announced the completion of the rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces to new complexes. According to the commander, ICBMs are being decommissioned “Poplar”, already developed a warranty operational resource. They are replaced by modern missile systems. “yars”. Finally 2019 years the troops received more 150 complex launchers “yars” in mine and mobile performance. Every year Strategic Missile Forces receives about 20 launchers and their systems.
In October last year, it became known, that three regiments of the Strategic Missile Forces will be re-equipped with a new missile system “Yars-S”. The characteristics of the new complexes are not disclosed, but it is known, what, like its predecessors – “Topol M” and “yars”, – complex “Yars-S” put on combat duty in two versions – in mobile and mine performance.
PC-24 “yars” – Russian strategic missile system with a solid propellant intercontinental ballistic missile of a mobile and mine based with a multiple warhead. Range of defeat declared in 11 thousands of kilometers.
