KARTALY, Chelyabinsk Region. Aug 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday Russia will keep its nuclear triad of air-, land-, and sea-based weapons.
"We intend to keep the nuclear triad in the future, but the government gives priority attention to the land component of the strategic nuclear forces," Ivanov told reporters while visiting a Russian Strategic Missile Forces regiment in the Chelyabinsk region. important military-political factor constraining aggressive tendencies and intentions against Russia and our allies," Ivanov said.
"This was duly reflected in plans for reforming the rocket forces covering the period up to 2016," he said.
Ivanov said he is quite happy with the current condition of Russia's strategic nuclear forces. "We are currently thinking of what we will have in 2015-2020," Ivanov said.