MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 60 Topol, Topol-M and Yars mobile ground missile complex launchers are holding maneuvers along combat patrol itineraries, the Russian Defense Ministry's Department of Information and Mass Communications told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.
"Within the Strategic Missile Troops training plan, over 60 launchers of Topol, Topol-M and Yars mobile ground missile complex launchers are conducting maneuvers across the territory from the Tver to Irkutsk regions," the department said in a statement.
The missile troops are safeguarding and defending missile complexes in coordination with military districts where the missile battalions are based, the statement says.
According to open sources, the arsenal of a missile regiment armed with a mobile ground missile complex consists of nine launchers.