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Shoigu declared today a workday, so that 31st will be a day-off...so we have a fresh Krasnaya Zvezda. With an epic interview with deputy minister Krivoruchko: redstar.ru/fundament-obor…

It is getting more and more complicated to calculate SRF re-armament this year:)

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2019:
2 (two) msl rgts re-armed with road-mobile Yars ICBM
2 "sets of equipment for silo-based launchers" delivered to Kozelsk (28 GMD)
Avangard serial production and re-armament of Dombarovsky "soyedineniye" started (may hint that 13 GMD will be fully "Avangarded"?..)

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2020:
New 3-year contract for 3 regimental road-mobile Yars sets...and Sirena-M road-mobile command missile/ballistic retranslator to be delivered in 2025
Complete ground stage of Sarmat development and start flight tests
2022: 92% of modern equipment in the SRF

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PAK DA: works according to schedule, Tupolev develops working documentation and started production of parts for test prototypes.

Tu-160M: prodution continues, deliveries to begin in 2021.

S-500: prelimenary tests in 2020, first serial in 2025.

4/
Oniks supersonic AShM tests completed, all new and modernized ships receiving it

Tsirkon hypersonic cruise (!) missile will provide "qualitatively new" strike capability against adversary aircraft and amphibious assault units.

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EKS: capable of detecting ICBM, SLBM, IRBM and SRBM launches; detected 64 BM launches (incl 35 foreign) and 136 SLV (97 foreign), capability not lower than SBIRS, but has a unique command transmission capabilities.

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Lasers: 2020 - to complete R&D on laser system capable of destroying UAVs and lightly protectes naval targets;
Works on power increase for Peresvet
Ariborne Peresvet under development

Hypersonic weapons: increase speed, range and precision

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Fun fact: eventually the interview was heavily redacted. More on this later.
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