RS-24 'Yars' (SS-29)

Ready for combat duty: in the Kaluga region, a rocket of the Yars complex was loaded into the mine

On the eve of the Day of Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), which is celebrated annually in Russia on December 17, the Kozelsky missile compound, located in the Kaluga Region, loaded the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile into a silo launcher (SHPU).

The rocket is installed in the silo with the help of a special transport and loading unit. The most complex technological operations are carried out within a few hours.

"The importance of this operation lies in the fact that the next missile will be on combat duty on schedule, the Motherland will receive another sample of nuclear missile weapons, which will allow solving any tasks at the strategic level," division commander Alexey Sokolov said.

In addition, the compound is working on the creation of a new infrastructure that provides better conditions for the training of the forces on duty, combat duty and rest by personnel.

NOTE: not sure exactly how many have been installed or will be installed. However each year several more are installed at this base, the only site deploying Yars ICBM's in silos.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/20221214030-M7pVn.html

For the second day this week, another new Yars installed at Kozelsky.

https://tvzvezda-ru.translate.goog/news/20221215547-boU5X.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui

December 16, 04:11

The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the regiment of mobile "Yars" taking up combat duty in Bologoye
The department noted that an appropriate infrastructure was created in the missile formation, and the personnel underwent retraining.

MOSCOW, 16 December. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the solemn ceremony of taking on combat duty of the missile regiment of the Bologovsky missile formation of the Strategic Missile Forces (Tver Region), re-equipped with the Yars mobile ground missile system.

Previously, preparatory work was carried out in the missile formation: the appropriate infrastructure was created, the personnel underwent retraining for combat duty at the Yars complex, the military department reported on December 16.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted that the placement on combat duty in 2023 of the next missile regiment of the Bologovsky formation of the Strategic Missile Forces as a whole will complete the re-equipment of the mobile grouping with the Yars mobile ground missile system.

RS-24 "Yars" is a Russian strategic missile system with a mobile and silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile with a multiple reentry vehicle. Developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering under the guidance of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Solomonov. It is a modification of the rocket complex "Topol-M".

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16609399



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December 15, 22:10

The re-equipment of the Strategic Missile Forces with the Yars mobile complex will be completed in 2023
The rearmament of the mobile group began with the Teikovsky missile formation

MOSCOW, 16 December. /TASS/. The Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN) will complete the transition from mobile Topols to the Yars mobile ground-based missile system (PGRK) in 2023. This was stated by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, in an interview published on Friday with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.

“Next year, by putting on combat duty the next missile regiment of the Bologovsky formation, the Strategic Missile Forces as a whole will complete the re-equipment of the mobile group with the Yars mobile ground-based missile system,” Karakaev said on the eve of Strategic Missile Forces Day, which is celebrated in Russia annually on December 17.

According to him, the rearmament of the mobile grouping of the Strategic Missile Forces at the Yars PGRK began with the Teykovo missile formation located in the Ivanovo region. In 2009, the first missile regiment equipped with the Yars mobile missile system took up combat duty.

"To date, the strategic missilemen have managed to re-equip all formations of the Strategic Missile Forces from Ivanovo to Irkutsk with this complex and, on schedule, begin re-equipping the westernmost division of the Strategic Missile Forces, located in the Tver region," Karakaev emphasized.

About rearmament in 2022

In 2022, the Strategic Missile Forces continued work on re-equipping with new silo-based missile systems, Karakaev said.
“In 2022, work continued on re-equipping the regiments of the Kozelsky missile formation with the Yars missile system in a mine-based version and the next regiment of the Yasnensky missile formation with the Avangard missile system,” he said.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16608095

New strategic missile system "Yars-M"

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4699961.html

That is no Yars, that is Putin flying home from Beijing.

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. Another RS-24 Yars solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been loaded into a silo launcher at Russia’s Kozelsk missile unit, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The ministry published a video of the process, which takes several hours.

"An intercontinental ballistic missile is being loaded into the silo launcher by the hydraulic mechanism of a special transport and loading unit. Technological operations take several hours," the ministry said.

The ministry also informed that it had created infrastructure for training and recreation of the personnel.

The Kozelsk missile formation was the first unit in the Russian Strategic Missile Force to be rearmed with silo-based Yars ICBMs.

"Implementation of the 2023 plans for rearming the Strategic Missile Force with Yars missile systems will increase combat capabilities of our country’s strategic nuclear forces," the ministry said.

The RS-24 Yars is a Russian strategic missile system comprising a mobile or silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile with MIRVed (multiple independently targetable vehicle) warheads. The Yars is a modification of the Topol-M missile system. Russia started deploying Yars ICBM systems in 2009 when the Yars launcher was accepted for experimental combat duty in the Strategic Missile Force.

https://tass.com/defense/1709883

The Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was loaded into a silo launcher at the Kozelsky formation of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) in the Kaluga region. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this on December 17.

As noted, the Kozelsk missile formation is the first in the Strategic Missile Forces to be re-equipped with the Yars missile system.

“The rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces consists not only in equipping troops with new missile systems, but also in creating the necessary infrastructure that provides better conditions for training duty forces, combat duty and rest for personnel,” the statement said.

Yars is a Russian strategic missile system with a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile. It is a modification of the Topol-M missile.

Earlier that day, the Russian military department showed an exercise with the deployment of Yars mobile ground-based missile systems to combat patrol routes, which took place in Barnaul missile formation of the Altai Territory as part of the Strategic Missile Forces exercise.

Before this, on December 15, in the Tver region in the Bologovsky missile formation, another missile regiment, equipped with the Yars mobile ground-based missile system, took up combat duty. As noted, this missile formation received a new generation of equipment that has no analogues.

NOTE: really not sure of the numbers installed here at Kozelsky but must be getting close to 20 or so.

Seems a Yars was test fired today.

Are you looking, Britain? 

JohninMK wrote:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1763563475408728433

Is it just me or are the upper stages now no longer of a reduced diameter?

I must say, a multiple bus ICBM is a great development, nato can say goodbye to any hopes of killing multiple warheads at once.