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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Russia to deploy Iskander missiles at Kazakhstan border

Iskander-MRussia will deploy its missiles at the border with Kazakhstan, Tengrinews reports citing Izvestiya. The missiles expected at the border are Iskander mobile theater ballistic missile systems.

These short-range ballistic missiles can be equipped with several different 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 electro-magnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions. The missiles can also carry nuclear warheads.

Russian Federal Agency for Special Construction is planning erect storage facilities for Iskander-M missile systems 100 kilometers away from the Kazakhstan border before the end of this year.

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