The types of artillery shells rely on a laser designator on the ground or another platform, such as a drone, to illuminate ...

The Russian Yars missile system (or RS-24 Yars) is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile. It has been in service with the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces since 2009.

Of those about 1,200 are retired but largely intact and around 4,380 are stockpiled for use by long-range strategic launchers and shorter-range tactical nuclear forces, according to the FAS.

Currently, Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces have six divisions with 18 self-propelled Yars launchers. According to Kryvolap, Moscow periodically uses tactical nuclear triad exercises to intimidate ...

Russia has suffered serious losses in Ukraine, including over 600,000 casualties, the West estimates. But a top US general warns Moscow still has dangerous forces that haven't been affected by the war ...

The president said Russia will pay special attention to its nuclear triad, adding that the Strategic Rocket Forces will be supplied with modern Yars missile systems, and that the aviation ...

Because Putin could not predict the U.S. response, Russia’s entire nuclear posture would change: submarines would go to sea, missile forces would be put on full alert and strategic bombers would ...

Russia's strategic rocket forces number 50,000 personnel out of its overall active military forces of 900,000, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said this week in its annual ...

Reviewing the rocket force management systems of other powers, Shao says: "As the first country to make and stockpile nuclear bombs, the US first assigned them to strategic bombers, which helped ...

According to that report, wargames have revealed the B-21 cannot penetrate as far as western China to destroy People's Liberation Army Strategic Rocket Force missiles and installations there. Those ...

The United States has around 1644 deployed strategic nuclear warheads. China has a total of 350 warheads, France 290 and the United Kingdom 225, according to the Federation of American Scientists.