Russian MoD
OTRK "Iskander-M" Photo by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Yekaterinburg. January 24th. Interfax-AVN - The Central Military District (TsVO) will receive two divisional sets of Iskander-M missile systems in service in 2022, Alexander Lapin, commander of the Central Military District, told reporters.
"The missile forces and artillery of the district will be reinforced with two Iskander-M divisional sets," Lapin said.
The operational-tactical missile system "Iskander-M" was developed in the Kolomna Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering (holding "High Precision Systems"). It was reported that the missiles of the complex can carry a nuclear warhead. In the version for the Russian army, the complex includes two types of missiles: ballistic and cruise.
In November 2019, the Russian military officially announced that all missile brigades of the Russian Ground Forces had completed the rearmament from Tochek-U to Iskander-M systems.
"Iskander-M" is designed to destroy small and area targets at a distance of up to 500 km: missile systems and multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery, command posts and communication centers, as well as aircraft and helicopters at airfields.
The Central Military District is deployed on the territory of three federal districts and 29 subjects of the Russian Federation. The district includes a number of foreign facilities: the 201st military base in Tajikistan, a joint military base in Kyrgyzstan, as well as units on the territory of Kazakhstan. The headquarters is located in Yekaterinburg.
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