The Russian Defense Ministry released a video showing the installation of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile in its latest threat to the West.
The video showed the installation of an RS-24 Yars, also known as a"Nuclear Deterrence Rocket," ICBM into a missile silo in Russia's Kozelsk military compound in the country's western Kaluga region, the Daily Mail reported. The installation is not the first. Kozelsk, home to the 28th Missile Guards Division, already has approximately 30 missile silos locked and loaded, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
The video showed the missile's transportation vehicle bringing it to the missile silo, at which point the container was raised toward the sky and lowered into its new home. Division commander Col. Alexei Sokolov, head of the Kozelsky missile formation, told Russian media of the strategic importance of the missile."This operation is important because it will allow yet another ICBM to enter combat duty as scheduled," Sokolov told Tass.
The silo version of the Yars has a range of nearly 7,500 miles, according to Military Today, allowing it to hit the United States or the United Kingdom. As of 2016, Russia had 63 mobile and 10 silo-based Yars missiles, a number that has increased in recent years.
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