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Overall Status and Numbers of Russian Forces

October 11, 2005 :: News

Russianforces.org reports on the recent START exchange data supplied by Russia on its ballistic missiles still in service:


In October 2005 the Russian strategic forces included 815 strategic delivery platforms, which can carry up to 3479 nuclear warheads.

[The] Strategic Rocket Forces have 545 operational missile systems that include missiles that can carry 1955 warheads. These include 85 R-36MUTTH and R-36M2 (SS-18) missiles, 129 UR-100NUTTH (SS-19) missiles, 291 road-mobile Topol (SS-25) systems, and 40 silo-based Topol-M (SS-27) systems.

        There are, besides these, a number of sea-based missiles. (Article)

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