RS-24 Yars missile system put on combat duty in Russia

ITAR-TASS ^ | 6/30/2010 | ITAR-TASS

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The Rs-24 Yars missile system has been put on combat duty, a high-ranking official in the space and rocket industry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

The chief designer of the Moscow Heat Engineering Institute, which created the system, said earlier that one of the RS-24 systems had already been delivered to the Strategic Rocket Forces and put on combat duty.

Institute Director Yuri Solomonov said, “All journalists are writing about Bulava, but are saying little about the new mobile missile system RS-24 Yars with multiple warheads that we created at the same time.”

The Strategic Rocket Forces intended to deploy the missile system RS-24 with multiple warheads in December 2009, Commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces Lieutenant-General Andrei Shvaichenko said on October 12, 2009.

“The intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 put into service will reinforce combat capabilities of the attack group of the Strategic Rocket Forces. Along with the single-warhead silo-based and mobile missile RS-12M2 Topol-M already made operational the mobile missile system Rs-24 will make up the backbone of the attack group of the Strategic Rocket Forces,” the general said.

Silo-based and mobile missile systems Topol-M, as well as RS-24 mobile missile systems were designed by the Moscow Heat Engineering Institute.

[phalynx]

Yars Revenge?

[MGMSwordsman]

And all the while we are disarming and pretending that the Russians are our best buddies and that the cold war is a distant memory. Most Americans are simply in denial about this, because the alternative is too frightening to contemplate, even though they get occasional glimpses of reality such as the recent arrest of 11 Russian illegals (deep cover agents) in the US.

There is only one logical target for the missiles, and sorry, it ain't China. Once our defenses have been lowered enough, both the Russians and Chinese will come calling. When we are out of the way, they can rule the world.

A Chinese general even recently stated that they will fight us in “hand to hand combat” in the near future after they get a little stronger and we continue to get weaker. The general went on to say that despite what you hear in the media, this is the belief and desire of almost everyone in power in China. Without question, the same can be said for those that control the levers of power in Russia.

China and Russia have also been conducting joint military exercises on an increasingly frequent basis. Who could they be preparing to fight? The Vatican? Monaco? Lichtenstein?

[politicalamity]

Exactly what I thought too. Ahh, the days of the Atari 2600.