Strategic Missile Forces finish rearmament on Yars missile systems
Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) are completing rearmament with modern Russian missile systems, gradually decommissioning Soviet-made systems. This was announced by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel General Sergei Karakaev in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star".
According to the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, the Topol ICBMs, which have already developed a guaranteed operational resource, are being decommissioned. They are being replaced by modern Yars missile systems. In recent years, more than 150 Yars missile launchers in the mine and mobile versions have entered the troops. Each year, the Strategic Missile Forces receives about 20 launchers and the systems that support them.
- said Karakaev.
He said that on the mobile-based Yars missile system four formations of the Strategic Missile Forces were re-equipped and the rearmament of the fifth is ending. On the “Yarsa” stationary base, two missile units are rearmament.
- said the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, adding that the 5 ICBMs of the Yars cannot be intercepted by existing missile defense systems.
PC-24 "Yars" is a Russian strategic missile system with a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile mobile and mine based with a multiple warhead. The defeat range declared in 11 thousand kilometers. A modernized version of the complex, Yars-S, has been developed, the data of the complex are not disclosed.
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