Mobile missile systems "Yars" launched on the routes as part of the exercises of the Strategic Missile Forces
The Strategic Missile Forces have begun large-scale exercises, and the Yars mobile missile systems of the Novosibirsk missile formation have been deployed to the routes. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.
The exercises are scheduled, within their framework, a comprehensive check of the Omsk missile formation will be carried out with a command and staff exercise with the Novosibirsk missile formation equipped with the Yars PGRK. In total, more than 300 pieces of equipment and over 3 military personnel are involved in the exercises. The exercises are conducted under the leadership of the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces.
The maneuvers will be carried out on the territory of three regions at once. Particular attention will be paid to the actions of individual autonomous mobile ground-based missile systems on combat duty routes, their camouflage and counteraction to air reconnaissance means. The use of UAVs will also be practiced. The role of the enemy in the exercises will play aviation Central Military District.
- said in a statement.
To date, the Strategic Missile Forces maintain a two-component structure of the missile group, consisting of mobile and stationary missiles. The strategic complex RS-24 "Yars" is equipped with a mobile and silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, it entered service to replace the Topol and Topol-M complexes in the Strategic Missile Forces.
PGRK "Yars" (PC-24) allow launching from sites where "Topol" could be on duty only after special engineering retrofitting. This year, the Strategic Missile Forces is completing the re-equipment of all units and formations with Yars mobile ground-based missile systems, which began back in 2009.
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