Russia in 2018 will have a new heavy silo-based liquid propellant megaton-class ICBM that will replace the RS-20 missile Voyevoda, which, unlike the well-known predecessor, will have increased survivability thanks to heavily fortified protection of the launcher and other measures of passive and active defense, an adviser to the commander of the Strategic Missile Force commander, former chief of staff of the Strategic Missile Force, Colonel-General Viktor Yesin told Itar-Tass.
"The adoption of this complex of measures will enhance the survivability of our new heavy silo-based missiles and will force a potential adversary to spend significantly more of its nuclear warheads and precision weapons capable of putting them out of order.
But even that would not serve as a guarantee of destroying the entire group of new Russian heavy missiles, part of which will still be able to survive and strike back," said General Yesin.
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