Russia protects strategic missiles
Russia is taking on more new armoured security vehicles designed to protect its strategic missile assets.
The MoD announced on 9 January that it had completed the development of the vehicle, called Typhoon-M.
It is to be used by the units armed with the RS-25 Yars (SS-29) mobile strategic missile. In 2016, as many as 14 Typhoon-Ms were taken on strength and 12 more will follow suite in 2017.
The Typhoon-M is intended to provide protection from diversionary teams which intend to attack the positions of the Russian nuclear-tipped mobile strategic missiles, both when deployed in the field and on
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