Russia Fields Mobile Missile Launchers

Russia has experimentally deployed three Topol-M mobile strategic missile launchers, Interfax reported Friday.  The single-warhead ICBM has already been deployed in silos, but Russia envisions fielding mobile versions of the missile to gradually replace its current, land-based nuclear arsenal, according to Interfax (see GSN, April 17).

“Vehicles ensuring combat duty and other hardware intended to ensure the functioning of the system were also brought into service with the missile division together with the launchers of the Topol-M system,” said a source with the Strategic Missile Forces (Interfax, Nov. 24).

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