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Russia's Strategic Missile Forces get 5 intercontinental ballistic missiles

Strategic Missile Forces in the third quarter of 2014 received five Yars ballistic missiles, six alerting vehicles and twelve training units
Yars ballistic missile ITAR-TASS/Vadim Savitsky
Yars ballistic missile
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MOSCOW, October 10. /TASS/. Russian rocket divisions received in the third quarter of the current year five ballistic missiles of the Yars road mobile complex, head of the Defense Ministry’s department of military representations Oleg Stepanov told Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday.

Besides, the Strategic Missile Forces have received six alerting vehicles and 12 training units.

Russia has intensified retraining of officers of Strategic Missile Troops to mobile ground-based Yars missile systems.