{"id":94828,"date":"2013-11-28T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/russia-to-deploy-22-new-ballistic-missiles-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:07:54","slug":"russia-to-deploy-22-new-ballistic-missiles-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/russia-to-deploy-22-new-ballistic-missiles-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Deploy 22 New Ballistic Missiles in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIA Novosti<\/strong><\/a>
November 28, 2013<\/p>\n

Twenty-two land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles will next year be added to Russia’s nuclear arsenal, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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An ICBM sitting inside a silo. Credit: jurvetson via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Yars is armed with the multiple-warhead RS-24intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a>, which has considerably better combat and operational capabilities than the Topol-M (SS-27 Stalin).<\/p>\n

Russia currently deploys an estimated 326 ICBMs with approximately 1,050 warheads, according to a June report by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.<\/p>\n

In line with the New START<\/a> treaty signed in 2010, Russia is allowed to add 227 delivery systems and 150 warheads to its stockpile of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

According to the recent State Duma Defense Committee report on the draft federal budget for 2014-2016, Russia plans to increase annual spending on nuclear weapons by more than 50 percent in the next three years.<\/p>\n

The report said 46.26 billion rubles ($1.4 billion) is to be spent on Russia’s nuclear weapons systems in 2016, up from 29.29 billion rubles this year.<\/p>\n

The Defense Ministry earlier announced plans to retire most of its outdated SS-18 Satan, SS-19 Stiletto and SS-25 Sickle (Topol) ICBMs and replace them with SS-27 Sickle-B (Topol-M) and RS-24Yars missiles by 2021.<\/p>\n

This article was posted: Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 9:41 am<\/p>\n

Tags: foreign affairs<\/a>, war<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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