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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Topol-M missile regiment put on active duty

Russia is completing the mobilization of a regiment of Topol-M mobile missile systems and placing it on active duty, the defense minister said Monday.

"In the future, these complexes will constitute the foundation of the Strategic Missile Forces," Sergei Ivanov said.

Ivanov said earlier Russia is planning to purchase 69 silo-based and mobile Topol-M ballistic missile systems in the next decade.

He said the defense ministry was also planning to procure 60 Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems to equip five missile brigades, 57 Sprut-SD self-propelled guns, 499 Rakushka airborne armored personnel carriers, and several Bereg mobile coastal artillery systems.

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