Moscow. January 25. INTERFAX - Launchers of the Yars mobile ground-launched missile system have entered combat patrol routes in the Ivanovo region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday
"During the exercise, strategic rocket scientists work out the issues of bringing missile systems to field positions, making marches up to 100 kilometers long, dispersing units with a change of field positions, their engineering equipment, organization of camouflage and combat protection"
It is noted that more than 100 pieces of equipment and about 1,000 military personnel are involved in the exercise.
"One of the most priority tasks of the exercises will be working out a wide list of issues on the search and destruction of conditional sabotage and reconnaissance formations at night," the military said.
Yars is a mobile and mine-based strategic missile system capable of hitting targets at a range of up to 11 thousand km. It is equipped with a separable head unit with maneuvering blocks of individual guidance. This complex is the basis of the RVSN grouping. The mobile-based Yars complexes are being put into combat service to replace the Topol mobile ground-based missile systems that produce a guaranteed operational resource.
The RVSN is a branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the main component of the strategic nuclear forces of Russia. The purpose is nuclear deterrence of possible aggression.
