Earlier, Vedomosti, citing two sources close to the military department, reported that the K-44 Ryazan nuclear submarine cruiser carried out on October 17 only one launch of the R-29R intercontinental ballistic missile at the Chizh test site, and not two.
The Ministry of Defense emphasized that "during the announcing briefing held for foreign military attaches, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense brought the maximum number of missile systems of various types that could be involved in the exercise."
In this case, the final decision on the number of launched intercontinental ballistic missiles is taken from the command post of the Russian Armed Forces.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense denied information about an emergency during the strategic command-and-staff exercise “Thunder-2019”.
Military expert Yuri Knutov in an interview with Nation News praised the Center-2019 exercises. According to him, the value of these exercises, firstly, is to work out the interaction of different branches of the armed forces.