The Strategic Missile Forces will conduct more than 100 exercises this summer and fall, the SMF press service said Friday.
Part of the exercises will include rehearsing command and control operations involving the mobile Topol-M ICBM complex.
The SMF commander said last month Russia will commission three Topol-M ICBMs this year.
"By the end of the year we will arm another missile battalion with advanced Topol-M ICBMs at the Teikovo missile base, Ivanovo Region," Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said.
Gen. Solovtsov said earlier the deployment of silo-based Topol-M systems in the Saratov Region and road-mobile systems in the Ivanovo Region (central Russia) would be completed in 2010.
As of December 2006, the Strategic Missile Forces operated 44 silo-based and three mobile missiles. The SMF press service said that, while 48 silo-based systems would be on duty by late 2007, the Teikovo base is shifting to cutting-edge road-mobile missiles.
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