The Russian Ministry of Defense shows images of missile launches from Sineva and Yars – Military and Defense

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry has shown images of launches of a Sineva ballistic missile and a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile as part of the training of nuclear deterrent forces.

Sineva was launched from the Barents Sea and Yars from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

The Strategic Deterrence Force (SDF) is a part of the Russian Armed Forces, designed to deter aggression against Russia and its allies, and to defeat the aggressor in a war using various types of weapons, including nuclear weapons. The SDF consists of the strategic offensive force and the strategic defense force.

The main component of the strategic offensive forces is the Strategic Nuclear Force (the SNF, or the Nuclear Triad), which includes the Strategic Missile Force, part of the Navy (the Navy Strategic Nuclear Force), and part of the Aerospace Force – the aviation Strategic Force. Nuclear power.

The creation of strategic nuclear weapons began in the 1950s. Stationary and mobile land-based intercontinental ballistic missile systems, strategic nuclear submarines and strategic bombers armed with strategic air-to-surface cruise missiles and aerial bombs are their main components.