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Defence & Security News - Russia |
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Thursday, November 28, 2013 09:29 AM | |||
Russia will increase its nuclear arsenal with 22 new land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. | |||
Twenty-two
land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles will next year be added
to Russia’s nuclear arsenal, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday,
November 27, 2013. “We intend to continue prioritizing the development
of the main component of our strategic nuclear deterrent,” Putin
said at a meeting on the development of the Russian Strategic Missile
Forces. |
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The estimated world nuclear forces in 2013. |
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Putin did not specify
the type of new ICBMs to be deployed, but a source in the Defense Ministry
told RIA Novosti on condition of anonymity that the missiles will be
mobile and silo-based Yars ICBMs. |
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Russia will increase its nuclear arsenal with 22 new land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles
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