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  Strategic Rocket Forces-Russian Nuclear Forces
Strategic Rocket Forces is a separate branch of the Russia's Armed Forces, subordinated directly to the General Staff.
The Strategic Rocket Forces were demoted to this status from the status of a separate service of the Armed Forces by a presidential decree of 24 March 2001.
Strategic Rocket Forces include three missile armies: the 27th Guards Missile Army (headquarters in Vladimir), the 31st Missile Army (Orenburg), the 33rd Guards Missile Army (Omsk).
russianforces.org /missiles   (561 words)

  
 Strategic Missile Troops
The Strategic rocket forces (RVSN), a branch of the service of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, is the main component of its strategic nuclear forces.
They are intended for the nuclear restraining of the possible aggression and defeat in the composition of strategic nuclear forces or by the independently massirovannymi, group either single nuclear missile attacks of strategic targets, which are located on one or several strategic aerospace directions also of the composing basis military and military-economic potentials of enemy.
As of mid-1997, two-thirds of the strategic forces' nuclear delivery systems were in constant combat readiness, and the readiness of the missile complexes to launch is a few tens of seconds.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/rvsn.htm   (1894 words)

  
 Strategic Rocket Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Strategic Rocket Forces of Russia (Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения (РВСН), transliteration: Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya) are a major division of the Russian armed forces that controls Russia's land-based ICBMs.
Complementary strategic forces within Russia are the 37th Air Army of the Supreme High Command, the bomber force, (which used to be known as Long Range Aviation) and the strategic submarines of the Russian Navy.
The commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces is Colonel General Nikolay Solovtsov, appointed on April 27, 2001 by President Vladimir Putin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategic_Rocket_Forces   (1940 words)

  
 Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
On December 21, 2006 at 11:20 MSK (08:20 UTC), the Strategic Rocket Forces conducted a successful test launch of a R-36M2 (RS-20V, SS-18) missile from the Dombarovsky division.
The Rocket Forces just celebrated the 47th anniversary of the service and on the occasion disclosed some of the missile deployment plans for the coming years.
The Strategic Rocket Forces announced on December 10, 2006 that the first regiment of mobile Topol-M missiles became operational with the missile division in Teykovo.
russianforces.org /eng   (603 words)

  
 The Early Strategic Rocket Forces
e Strategic Rocket Forces were formed on 7 May 1960 as a new branch of the Soviet military.
Only the Strategic Rocket Forces would be able to deter or respond to Western nuclear aggression.
When the Strategic Rocket Forces were formed they were armed with very few first generation missiles developed in the 1950's.
www.russianwarrior.com /1969_History_SRF.htm   (852 words)

  
 Does Russia Need Strategic Rocket Forces?
On June 21 2000, Mikhail Leontyev stated in the TV program "Odnako" ("However") that the Russian Armed Forces General Staff made an offer to increase appropriations for and numbers of conventional armed forces in the nearest future at the expense of appropriations for the Strategic Rocket Forces (SRF).
Nevertheless, attempts to solve existing and really sharp problems of the conventional forces at the expense of drastic reduction of the SNF (mainly, the SRF) and reallocate the freed resources to development of the conventional forces can bring even more harm to the national security.
Moreover, it is necessary to acknowledge impossibility to ensure development, maintenance and an acceptable level of readiness of conventional forces of the existing size and structure, taking into consideration the realistic prognosis of the level of military expenditures.
www.armscontrol.ru /start/exclusive/pbr0712.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (UTC) (Russian: Вооружённые Си́лы Росси́йской Федера́ции Transliteration: Vooruzhénniye síly Rossíyskoy Federátsii) is the military of Russia, established after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
There is also the Kaliningrad Special Region, under the command of the Commander Baltic Fleet, which has a HQ Ground and Coastal Forces, formerly the 11th Guards Army, with a motor rifle division and a motor rifle brigade, and a fighter aviation regiment of Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker', as well as other forces.
Sergeyev was the former commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Russian_Federation   (2404 words)

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