The commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, told how the fleets of strategic missile launchers are being updated.
According to him, of the eight divisions equipped with mobile missile systems, six have already completed rearmament. In addition, the re-equipment of the stationary-based Yars complex in the Kozelsky compound continues.
"In the period from 2011 to 2021, 21 missile regiments with modern missile systems were put on combat duty. The share of modern missile systems in the group has increased from 38 to 83 percent," the commander explained in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda. - As part of the development of Yars, fundamentally new units and systems were created and delivered to the troops, ensuring invulnerability and security, as well as guaranteed functioning of missile systems. Among them are the remote mine clearance vehicle "Foliage", the Typhoon-M combat anti-sabotage vehicle, high-speed communication and data transmission systems."
Karakayev said that the Strategic Missile Forces are completing the year 2021 by putting on combat duty the next missile regiment of the Kozelsky missile compound with the Yars missile complex in the mine version and the regiment in the Barnaul missile compound with the mobile version of the Yars missile complex. The statistics today are as follows: 36 missile regiments are equipped with modern strategic missile systems, 20 of which are mobile ground-based and 16 are stationary-based.
As for the immediate plans, Karakayev said: in 2022 they are going to put four missile regiments on duty. These include a regiment in the Uzhur connection of the RVSN with the Sarmat complex, one new regiment in the Yasnensky connection with the Avangard complex, as well as regiments in the Tver and Kirov regions with the Yars mobile ground missile system.
"The new Sarmat rocket complex with a heavy rocket, created by the domestic cooperation of industry, will significantly surpass its predecessor Voevoda in many characteristics. The novelty and complexity of the new equipment will not be an obstacle to the successful deployment of the complex on combat duty," Karakayev said.
Yuri Gavrilov
