Russia Set to Scrap 17 Outdated Topol Missile Launchers by 2017

© Sputnik / Vjacheslav Afonin / Go to the mediabankThe launch of a Start-1 intercontinental ballistic missile based on Topol missile. The Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region
The launch of a Start-1 intercontinental ballistic missile based on Topol missile. The Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region - Sputnik International
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The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is planning to dismantle a total of 17 outdated Topol mobile missile launchers by the end of 2016.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Topol entered service with the Russian Strategic Missile Forces in 1988 and is being gradually replaced with more advanced Topol-M and Yars mobile missile systems.

According to a post on the website of state purchase orders, the company is looking for a contractor to dismantle 17 Topol launches from a missile unit based in the Udmurt Republic in Russia's Volga Region "in line with a federal program on the dismantling of weaponry and other military equipment until 2020."

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During the process, the launchers will be placed and scrapped at the facilities coordinated with the United States, in line with the Russian-US New START Treaty of 2010, Roscosmos said.

The launchers have been designed to fire RS-12M Topol (NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle) single-warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles that have a maximum range of 10,000 kilometers (6,125 miles) and can carry a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 550 kilotons.

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