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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Elimination of R-39/SS-N-20 missiles

SS-N-20 missile |The U.S. Embassy in Russia announced that Russia and the United States completed the elimination of 78 SS-N-20 missiles (known as R-39 in Russia).

This work was done as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program in a 12 year long project.

Various reports suggest that all SLBMs of this type have been eliminated. This is probably true - there is no reason to keep these missiles around - but the numbers suggest that Russia did some of the elimination on its own.

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