The Yars ICBM can carry several nuclear warheads towards different targets.
Russia's military loaded one of its intercontinental ballistic missiles that can be armed with nuclear warheads into a launch site at a missile base in Western Russia, according to Moscow's defense ministry.Russian forces spent 'several hours' loading a Yars ICBM into a silo at the Kozelsk missile base in the Kaluga region southwest of the capital, Moscow said in a statement on Thursday.
has its Minuteman III ground-launched ICBMs, forming part of the nuclear triad making up Washington's strategic nuclear deterrent.The Russian forces based out of the Kozelsk facility were the first to receive the Yars ICBM, according to Russian state news agency Tass. In 2018, the U.S.-based Federation of American Scientists think tank said satellite imagery indicated 'substantial upgrades' to the silos for ICBMs at the Kozelsk site.
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