In January 2020 Russia was estimated to have 532 strategic launchers that can carry about 2100 nuclear warheads. In its September 2019 New START data exchange Russia reported 513 deployed launchers with 1426 New START-accountable nuclear warheads.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potentially dangerous link to nuclear weapons is a quite popular topic these days. Some of it is because nobody really knows what the role of AI can be. It is a (relatively) new and quite...
Something started happening to the unique IDs assigned to Russian strategic bombers. These are the big, usually red, numbers painted on the nose gear door, sometimes called "бортовой" or "тактический" number. For example, one of the Tu-95MS bombers shown taking...
On 5 November 2023, Imperator Alexander III, a submarine of the Project 955A/Borey-A class, conducted a successful launch of a Bulava missile. The submarine was deployed in the White Sea, the warheads reached their targets at the Kura test site....
On October 27, 2023 at 09:04 MSK (06:04 UTC) the crews of the Air and Space Forces conducted a successful launch of a Soyuz-2.1b launcher from the launch pad 43/4 of the Plesetsk launch site. The launcher delivered into orbit...
On October 25, 2023 Russian armed forces conducted an exercise of strategic forces. This is an annual exercise that is traditionally held in the fall (one exception was the 2021 exercise that was moved to February 2022). As in previous...
On 16 October 2023, the Generalissimus Suvorov submarine of the Borey-A/Project 955A class arrived in Vilyuchinsk in Kamchatka where it joined the 25th submarine division. The submarine, the sixths in the Project 955 line and the third Project 955A/Borey-A submarine,...
The Air and Space Forces conducted a successful launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the launch pad No. 3 of the launch complex No. 43 of the Plesetsk space launch site. The launch took place at 16:19:25 MSK (13:19:25 UTC)...
The Strategic Rocket Forces appear to be set to complete the retirement of SS-25 Topol-M mobile missiles. According to the account of the 22 July 2023 meeting of the RVSN military council, the rearmament of the Bologoye division (Vypolzovo in...
The United States announced a series of measures in response to Russia's suspension of New START. First, it suspended biannual exchange of detailed data on treaty-accountable items and facilities. Normally, these exchanges reflect the status of strategic forces as of...
U.S. State Department released the New START aggregate numbers as of 1 March 2023. Since Russia suspended its participation in the treaty in February 2023, the Russia column contains "Not provided." As for the United States the declared numbers are...
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