TASS:
MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The Tagil unit of the Russian strategic missile forces has been completely rearmed with Yars (NATO reporting name: SS-29 Yars) ground-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems, commander of the Russian strategic missile forces Sergei Karakayev said on Thursday.
“We have completed rearming of the Tagil and Novosibirsk missile units with the Yars ground-mobile ballistic missile systems,” he said, adding that ongoing missile troops drills in the Sverdlovsk region will make it possible to assess the possibilities of new arms and hardware.
According to Karakayev, rearming of the Irkutsk and Yoshkar-Ola missile units continues. Rearming of Bologoye and Barnaul units will begin in 2020. In November 2017, Karakayev said that all missile divisions operating mobile missile systems would be rearmed with the Yars missile system by 2026.
