Russian Strategic Missile Forces were created on December 17, 1959. This military branch of Russian armed forces controls country's land-based inter-continental ballistic missiles. Presently six types of missile systems are on combat duty. Three of them are ground-based and other three are silo-based. Around 6,000 people serve daily at combat posts in alert forces, no less than 95% of missile systems on combat duty are constantly on standby for immediate launch of missiles. Russian Strategic Missile Forces in photo gallery by TASS.