Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are conducting a planned command-staff exercise that involves a missile formation based at fixed sites, the Defense Ministry said, according to Interfax. The ministry also reported a control inspection of the Vladimir missile formation.
Mobile Yars missile complexes have been sent out onto patrol routes as part of the drill, the ministry said in its announcement on Thursday.
According to the military department, the exercise's chief purpose is to improve the coordination of military command bodies, Interfax reported.
