The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on conducting exercises using the launchers of mobile soil missile systems (PGRK) Yars.
“, within the framework of planned exercises in the Teikovsky and Irkutsk formations of the Strategic Missile Forces, the launchers of the YRSS” EGS “perform intense maneuverable actions. The calculations of the moving soil missile systems” Yars “perform measures to perform marches with a length of up to 100 kilometers, disperse the units with a change in field positions and their engineering equipment, the organization of camouflage and combat security, ”the statement said.
The department noted that strategic missilers also solve the issues of counteracting sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
Similar exercises will be held in other missile formations in the near future,- added to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
PC -24 Yars – a Russian strategic missile system with a solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile of mobile and mine base with a separated head of the head.
The name “Yars” deciphens as a “nuclear missile of containment”. The missile system was developed by the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering under the leadership of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Solomonov. It is a modification of the Topol-M missile system, was adopted in 2009.
Yars is considered the basis of the strategic forces of Russia, an important element of the nuclear triad and the nuclear deterrence system. The Mobile “Yars” missile carries six small -class capitals. With one launch, the complex is able to cover six important targets on an area of hundreds and thousands of square kilometers at a range of up to 12 thousand km.