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Missile brigades of the Russian Ground Forces will closely interact with the Navy from 2021. Iskander-M missiles (SS-26 in NATO code) will support naval operations at a distance of 500 km, and precisely destroy adversary targets, such a coastal facilities and hardware, air bases, radars and command posts — the Izvestia Daily writes.

The missile brigades with Iskander-M will provide fire support to Navy operations from 2021. The new concept will be tested at the upcoming Zapad-2021 strategic exercise, Defense Ministry sources said. Forpost navy drones will provide guidance to the missiles. Western Military District Commander Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev spoke about an experiment in early July 2020. A missile brigade of the Ground Forces destroyed unnamed targets in the central sea range, in Arkhangelsk region. In the same month, Iskander trained repelling an amphibious assault and assisting the Black Sea fleet.

Most Iskander-M are operated by the Ground Forces. Coastal navy forces have one missile brigade with them. It is deployed in Kaliningrad region and operates in the 11th army corps. The 9K720 Iskander (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a mobile short-range ballistic-missile system produced and deployed by the Russian Federation. The missile systems are to replace the obsolete OTR-21 Tochka systems, still in use by the Russian armed forces, by 2020. The Iskander has several different conventional warheads, including a cluster-munitions warhead, a fuel-air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high explosive-fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting, and an electromagnetic-pulse device for anti-radar missions. The missile can also carry nuclear warheads. In September 2017, the KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM) general designer Valery M. Kashin said that there were at least seven types of missiles (and “perhaps more”) for Iskander, including one cruise missile…

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