TSAMTO, January 10. This year, the Strategic Missile Forces plan to conduct more than 10 launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, most of which will be test launches.
The territories of the Yasnensky Rocket compound in the Orenburg Region and the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region will be used as a test site. It was there that the Avangard missile system, equipped with hypersonic weapons, was tested, including its flight tests.
Over the past five years, the Strategic Missile Forces conducted 25 ICBM launches. First of all, these are launches to confirm the characteristics of missiles on duty, the results of which extend the service life, or confirm the technical reliability of a batch of manufactured missiles. As part of the creation of new complexes and combat equipment, test launches are being carried out.
At the moment, the share of modern missile systems in the Strategic Missile Forces has increased to 83 percent, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said in a statement on January 9.
