In July 2008 the Russian strategic forces included 667 strategic delivery platforms, which can carry up to 3070 nuclear warheads.

The Strategic Rocket Forces have 415 operational missile systems that include missiles that can carry 1575 warheads. These include 75 R-36MUTTH and R-36M2 (SS-18) missiles, 97 UR-100NUTTH (SS-19) missiles, 189 road-mobile Topol (SS-25) systems, 48 silo-based and 6 road-mobile Topol-M (SS-27) systems.

The Russian strategic fleet includes 14 strategic missile submarines, whose missiles can carry 611 nuclear warheads. Bases of the Northern Fleet host six 667BDRM (Delta IV) operational submarines, which carry 92 R-29RM (SS-N-23) launchers and two 667BDR (Delta III) submarines with 27 R-29R (SS-N-18) missiles. The only remaining Pacific Fleet base hosts four 667BDR (Delta III) submarines, which carry 54 R-29R (SS-N-18) missiles. The Russian strategic aviation consists of 79 bombers that can carry up to 884 long-range cruise missiles. The bombers are 15 Tu-160 (Blackjack) and 64 Tu-95MS (Bear H). The bombers can carry various modifications of the Kh-55 (AS-15) cruise missile and gravity bombs. As of October 2008, the space-based tier of the early warning system includes four satellites that appear operational -- two on highly elliptical orbits and two on geostationary orbit. The constellation cannot maintain 24-hour coverage of the U.S. territory, but may provide some coverage of SLBM launches from North Atlantic.