Western Military District's missile brigade to receive Iskander-M missiles in 2014

MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Western Military District (WMD) is to receive a brigade set of Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles in 2014, WMD Commander Col. Gen. Anatoly Sidorov said.

"In 2014 twenty formations and military units will be re-armed with new and upgraded hardware. One missile brigade will be re-armed with an Iskander-M missile complex," he said at a session of the Russian Defense Ministry collegium.

"In particular, hardware acceptance facilities have already been organized in Luga for the storage of the Iskander-M complex," he said when asked by the defense minister how hardware supplies are synchronized with infrastructure preparations.