Russian Missile Forces to Hold 200 Drills in Next 6 Months

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MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s
Strategic Missile Forces will conduct over
200 exercises in the next six months, the
Defense Ministry has said.
“During the summer training period, the
SMF is planning to hold over 200
exercises, including tactical drills at the
division-regiment level as well as
command post exercises at the army
level,” spokesman Col. Igor Yegorov said
Thursday.
Russia's SMF plans by 2016 to modernize
its command-and-control systems in
order to improve their ability to
overcome missile defenses and increase
the survivability of delivery vehicles.
At present, six types of silo-based and
mobile ICBM systems are on combat duty
with the SMF, including the heavy
Voyevoda (SS-18 Satan), capable of
carrying 10 warheads, the Topol-M
(Stalin) and RS-24 Yars systems.
On Thursday, SMF successfully tested a
prototype of a new solid-fuel
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM),
which is expected to replace Topol-M
and Yars in the future.
The missile was fired from a mobile
launcher at the Kapustin Yar testing
range in the Astrakhan region and hit its
designated target at the Sary Shagan
testing range in Kazakhstan.
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