Strategic Missile Troops - Composition in 2010s

Composition in 2010s

According to Jane's Defence Weekly, the RSVN main command post is at Kuntsevo in the suburbs of Moscow, with the alternate command post at Kosvinksky Mountain in the Urals.

Female cadets have now started to join the Peter the Great Strategic Rocket Forces Academy. RSVN institutes also exist at Serpukhov and Rostov-on-Don. An ICBM test impact range is located in the Far East, the Kura Test Range, although this has been part of the Aerospace Defence Forces since 2010.

The Strategic Rocket Forces operate four distinct missile systems. The oldest system is the silo-based R-36M2 / SS-18 Satan which carries ten warheads, the last missile will be in service until 2020. The second system is the silo-based UR-100NUTTH / SS-19 Stiletto, the last 70 missiles in service with six warheads each will be removed by 2017. The most numerous missile in service is the single warhead mobile RT-2PM Topol / SS-25 Sickle which have 171 missiles in service, all of them are planned to be decommissioned by 2019. A new missile entering service is the RT-2UTTH Topol-M / SS-27 Sickle B with single warhead, from which 49 are silo-based and 19 are mobile. Some new missiles will be added in future. First upgraded Topol-M called RS-24 Yars, carrying three warheads, was commissioned in 2010 and in July 2011 the first mobile regiment with 9 missiles was completed.

The composition of missiles and warheads of the Strategic Rocket Forces previously had to be revealed as part of the START I treaty data exchange. The current (December 2010) order of battle of the forces is as follows:

• 27th Guards Missile Army (HQ: Vladimir)
  • 98th Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron
  • 7th Guards Slingshot Division at Vypolzovo with 18 mobile RT-2PM Topol
  • 14th Rocket Division at Yoshkar-Ola with 27 mobile RT-2PM Topol
  • 28th Guards Rocket Division at Kozelsk with 29 silo-based UR-100NUTTH
  • 54th Guards Rocket Division at Teykovo with 18 mobile RT-2UTTH Topol-M and 12 (December 2011) mobile RS-24
  • 60th Rocket Division at Tatischevo with 41 silo-based UR-100NUTTH and 52 silo-based RT-2UTTH Topol-M
• 31st Missile Army (HQ: Rostoshi)
  • 102nd Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron
  • 13th Red Banner Rocket Division at Dombarovskiy with 30 silo-based R-36M2 (see )
  • 42nd Rocket Division at Nizhniy Tagil with 27 mobile RT-2PM Topol
• 33rd Guards Rocket Army (HQ: Omsk)
  • 105th Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron
  • 35th Rocket Division at Barnaul with 36 mobile RT-2PM Topol
  • 39th Guards Rocket Division at Novosibirsk with 36 mobile RT-2PM Topol
  • 51st Guards Rocket Division at Irkutsk with 27 mobile RT-2PM Topol
  • 62nd Rocket Division at Uzhur with 28 silo-based R-36M2

In 2016 is estimated the 31st Rocket Army will be disbanded. The 42nd RD with RT-2PM will be disbanded, and 13th RD with R-36 will be transferred to the 27th GRA. (Podvig)