Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces plans to stop using rail-mobile SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2010, commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said Sunday (see GSN, Oct. 24).

By 2010, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will consist of two armies, each with 10 to 12 divisions, Solovtsov said.  The divisions will be armed with Topol-M ballistic missiles and “will probably have no rail-mobile missile systems,” he added (ITAR-Tass, Dec. 16 in FBIS-SOV, Dec. 16).

As of July, Russia had 36 deployed SS-24 rail-mobile ICBM systems, according to a START memorandum of understanding that the United States and Russia exchange twice a year.  Of those 36 SS-24s, 15 are at the Kostroma missile base, nine are at the Bershet base and 12 are at the Krasnoyarsk base.  Russia also had 30 Topol-M missiles deployed at the Tatishchevo missile base, according to the START memorandum (Mike Nartker, Global Security Newswire, Dec. 18).

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