Moscow. August 10. INTERFAX - The Russian army has received a brigade set of the Iskander-M operational and tactical complex, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said.
At the single day of acceptance of military products in Moscow on Tuesday, he said that the complexes were delivered to the Russian Defense Ministry "ahead of schedule".
It was officially reported that all missile brigades of the Russian Ground Forces were re-equipped with "Iskanders" from the "Tochka-U" complexes.
The Russian Defense Ministry did not specify which missile brigade will receive the Iskanders delivered ahead of schedule.
Iskander-M was developed in the Kolomna Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (holding "High-precision complexes"). It was reported that the missiles of the complex can carry a nuclear warhead.
In the version for the Russian army, the complex includes two types of missiles: ballistic and cruise. The flight range of the Iskander-M missiles was officially called-up to 500 km.
