“This year, two more missile regiments of the mobile base of the Barnaul connection will be rearmament to the Yars missile system,” he said in an interview with Red Star.

He noted that in December 2019, the first missile regiment in the village of Dombarovsky, Orenburg Region, with the Avangard complex, took up combat duty.

In January, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu set the task of progressively re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces at the Avangard and Yars complexes, and the naval nuclear forces at the latest strategic submarines of the Borey-A class.