More than 500 Strategic Missile Revings will be ready to launch missiles in the New Year

More than 500 calculations of strategic missile troops will meet the New Year at combat posts, the Ministry of Defense reported. On the holiday, they will be congratulated by the commanders in the speakerphone.

“More than 500 combat calculations will meet the New Year at combat posts. About six thousand people are in the DSN forces daily,” Interfax quotes the message. The first to be on duty were military personnel of the Eastern Eastern Division in the Strategic Missile Forces - Irkutsk.

"The commanders of the formations and units will congratulate their subordinates who have entered the combat duty and are in combat posts, personally from the main points of the loud -speaking communication department a few hours before the New Year," the report said.

The Strategic Missile Forces is the main component of strategic nuclear forces. The Strategic Missile Forces are designed for nuclear deterrence of possible aggression. According to open data, the basis of the arsenal is the mine base missiles RS-18 Style and RS-20 Satan .