Bloomed "Topol"
The Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will be re-equipped with single-bar Topol-M mobile ground-based ground-based missile systems with new Yars missiles with a divided warhead, commander Sergey Karakaev said. Statements for rearmament followed immediately after the resignations of the leadership of the Strategic Missile Forces, but experts believe that this is a coincidence.
The Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will be reequipped from the Topol-M monoblock mobile ground-based missile systems to the new Yars missiles with a divided head part.
"Over the past period of experimental combat duty PGRK" Yars "has established itself as a reliable weaponIn connection with this, a decision was made to re-equip the mobile group of the Strategic Missile Forces for this type of missile systems, ”Lieutenant-General Sergei Karakayev, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, told Interfax on Tuesday.
“At the same time, the Topol-M missile system will not be mobile-deployed for use by the RVSN,” he noted. The general said that the RS-24 (Yars) would increase the combat capabilities of the Strategic Missile Forces strike group to overcome missile defense systems, thereby strengthening the nuclear deterrence potential of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. "Together with the PC-12М2 Topol-M mine and mobile-based monoblock missile already deployed, these missiles will form the basis of the strike force of the Strategic Missile Forces for the foreseeable future, up to 2020 of the year"
According to Karakaev, who transmits RIA "News”, One of the most effective means of solving the problem of increasing the survivability of a military group is the use of mobile ground-based missile systems (PGRK).
“The newest Russian PGRK is the Yars ICBM RS-24 complex, which has the ability to quickly exit from a point of permanent deployment and latent dispersal over large territories. This PGRK gives stability to the group in response, ”said Karakaev.
Note that the first regiment with the “Yars” was put on experimental combat duty as early as the beginning of 2010 in the Teikov missile compound. The development of "Yars" deals with the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering. The missile will be able to carry 3-4 individual-directed nuclear warheads with a capacity of 150-300 kilotons each. Technical data missiles are classified. It is assumed that it will be able to hit targets at a distance of 11 thousands of kilometers. In early January, 2010, it was reported that it is planned to complete state tests of Yars by the end of this year.
"Armament will continue"
Sergey Karakaev also stated that other new missile systems (RK) are being developed in Russia, which will help maintain the balance of power in solving the problem of nuclear deterrence. "In the domestic rocket science, the development of new missile systems will continue, including the new technical solutions of the Topol-M type RK, which will come into service with the Strategic Missile Forces," the commander said.
Meanwhile, the adoption of the mine-based missile systems Topol-M will continue. As expected, by the end of 2010, the sixth missile regiment armed with stationary Topol will take up combat duty at the Tatischev formation. “The re-equipment of the missile regiments to the stationary-based Topol-M missile system will be continued in the 2011 year,” noted the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces on Tuesday.
In December, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will hold the fifth launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this year. The 2011 year is scheduled for 10 intercontinental ballistic missile launches. ICBM launches are carried out from landfills, the cosmodrome and from the position area of the Dombarovsky missile compound in the Orenburg region. In the Strategic Missile Forces explain that the test launches are carried out in the framework of development work on the creation of promising samples of rocket technology.
Strategic optimization
The commander also described how the number of troops assigned to him was changing: “From 2006 to 2009, one rocket division deployed in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, and 19 rocket regiments were disbanded according to the construction plan of the Russian Armed Forces; the Stavropol Military Institute of Communications and five Central Repair Plants were withdrawn from the Strategic Missile Forces; the Sary-Shagan testing range and the Kapustin Yar state central interspecific testing area in the Astrakhan region are combined into one structure; The Tverskoye Suvorov Military School was included in the Strategic Missile Forces, ”Karakaev said.
At the same time, he stressed that over the past five years, fundamental changes in the structure of the Strategic Missile Forces did not happen - “the tested three-tier system of military command bodies: the command of the Strategic Missile Forces - a missile association - a missile compound” remained unchanged.
In total, from 1 in January of 2006 to 1 in January of 2010, more than 10 has been reduced thousands of military posts and over 8 of thousands of civilian posts. This year, the financial and economic department and the military-scientific committee of the Strategic Missile Forces were disbanded; transferred to the Space Forces a separate research and testing station in the town of Klyuchi and a training center in the town of Mirny, and the Military Scientific Committee of the General Staff - 4 Central Research Institute.
The composition and strength of military units and organizations located in Moscow and the Moscow region were optimized, branches of the Peter the Great Strategic Rocket Forces of Peter the Great were established in Serpukhov and Rostov-on-Don by incorporating relevant military institutes into the structure of the academy. Also, a reduction in the composition and number of higher military educational institutions was carried out in connection with a decrease in the number of students and cadets.
The commander said that in 2011, the main efforts to improve the organizational structure of the Strategic Missile Forces will be aimed at further optimizing the structure of military control bodies at all levels in order to eliminate duplicate functions; the disbandment of individual small military units, the consolidation of military units and bodies with the redistribution of tasks and functions, with the exception of their duplication; the re-formation of individual military units located in one location, into larger ones; the replacement of positions of servicemen who do not determine the combat capability of military units to civilian positions.
“Not related to resignations”
Note that the statements of the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces occurred immediately after the resounding resignations that occurred the day before. 29 November President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the Deputy Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces for Armaments, Major General Vladimir Antsiferov, and Deputy Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces for the rear of Major General Alexei Chirkunov. According to the Kremlin press service, the president made a similar decision regarding Deputy Commander of the 31 Rocket Army Major General Alexander Bolgarsky and Chief of Armaments - Deputy Commander for the Weapon Army Major General Gennady Kutorkin.
The expert of the Center for Analysis, Strategy and Technology, Andrei Frolov, however, sees no connection between the resignations that took place and the statements of the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces: “There is no sensation in rearming the Strategic Missile Forces and there’s no need to come up overnight after the resignations” the exploitation of Topol, and so basically ends in 2015-16, so that their replacement with more modern Yarsy is a completely expected event. ”
- Alexey Baranovsky
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