As of December 2010, the Russian strategic forces included
611 strategic delivery platforms,
which can carry up to 2679
nuclear warheads. The Strategic Rocket Forces
have 375 operational missile systems of four types that can carry 1259 warheads.
The strategic fleet includes 12 strategic missile
submarines. Their 160 missiles can carry 576 nuclear warheads.
Strategic aviation bomber force consists
of 76 bombers that can carry up to 844 long-range cruise missiles.
In August 2011 the space-based tier of the early
warning system included four operational satellites on highly
elliptical orbits.
The K-84 Ekaterinburg submarine of the Project 667BDRM/Delta IV class caught fire on December 29, 2011. The submarine was undergoing repairs in the PD-50 floating dry dock in Roslyakovo, near Severomorsk, where it was moved earlier this month. The fire...
According to the commander of the Long-Range Aviation, Major-General Anatoly Zhikharev, his service formulated a set of technical requirements for a new strategic bomber, known as a PAK DA - "Advanced Aviation Complex for the Long-Range Aviation." The work on...
The Rocket Forces reported that the second regiment of RS-24 Yars missiles began combat duty at the Teykovo division (the first one with 9 RS-24 missiles assumed combat duty in August 2011). The regiment is not complete yet - at...
On December 27, 2011, at 16:00 MSK (12:00 UTC) the Strategic Rocket Forces successfully launched a UR-100NUTTH/SS-19 missile from a silo launcher at the Baykonur test site. The ministry of defense reported that the launch was used to confirm the...
On December 23, 2011 at 16:08 MSK (12:08 UTC), the Space Forces crews carried out a launch of a Souyz-2.1b launcher. Equipped with a Fregat boost stage, it was carrying a Meridian communication satellite. The launcher failed to deliver the...
On December 23, 2011 Yuri Dolgorukiy submarine of the Project 955 class conducted a successful salvo launch of two Bulava missiles. According to the Ministry of Defense spokesman, the missiles were launched from a submerged submarine deployed in the White...
On December 20, 2011, the Strategic Rocket Forces and the Air and Space Defense Forces conducted a successful test launch of the 53T6 (Gazelle) interceptor of the A-135 missile defense system, which is currently deployed around Moscow. The test launch...
The K-51 Verkhoturie submarine of the Project 667BDRM/Delta IV class, which began overhaul in August 2010, will not return to active service until the end of 2012....
The Rocket Forces added a new battalion of three RS-24 Yars missiles to the missile division in Teykovo. Together with the first full RS-24 regiment that began combat duty in August 2011, this brings the total number of RS-24 missiles...
The Strategic Rocket Forces will begin deployment of a "fourth-generation" command and control system in 2012, according to the commander of the Rocket Forces, Sergey Karakayev. The new system will apparently replace the "third-generation" command and control system that was...
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