As of the beginning of the year, Russia had 521 intercontinental ballistic missiles – Defense Express

R-30 “Mace”. photo from open sources

As of the beginning of 2024, Russia had 521 land-based and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles at its disposal.

Source: Defense Express with reference to the study The Military Balance 2024, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists guide on the nuclear arsenal of the Russian Federation and the SIPRI Yearbook 2024, World nuclear forces 2023.

Details: As the publication notes, in all three cases the data are given as of the beginning of 2024, so these calculations do not contain data on the possible presence of RS-26 “Rubezh” at the disposal of the aggressor.

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Literally: “Therefore, we can record that at the beginning of this year, Russia had at its disposal a total of 521 land- and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, while it took more than two decades of work of the Russian military-industrial complex to accumulate such an arsenal.”

Details: At the beginning of this year, the Russian strategic missile forces had at their disposal:

• 34 ICBMs of the RS-20 “Voevoda” type (deployment started back in 1988),
• 60 ICBMs of the RS-12M “Topol-M” type (deployment started in 1997),
• 18 ICBM RS-12M1 “Topol-M” (deployment started in 2006),
• 180 ICBM RS-24 “Yars” in the mine version (deployment started in 2010),
• 24 such missiles in a mobile version (since 2014),
• about 8 Avangard missiles.

The number of intercontinental ballistic missiles “Sarmat” is unknown.

If we talk about the naval component, then Russia has 192 ballistic missiles for placement on 12 nuclear submarine cruisers.

Of them, 112 units are RSM-56 (or R-30) “Bulava”, the deployment of which started in 2012, and 80 units are RSM-54 “Syneva”, deployed since 2007, the publication writes.

The Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted that Ukraine became the first country in the world against which an intercontinental ballistic missile was used.

The video of the first Russian attack on Ukraine with the intercontinental ballistic missile “Rubezh” came into the possession of the UP pic.twitter.com/Cfx4ZlXhvA

— Ukrainian truth ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) November 21, 2024

Prehistory:

• On the morning of November 21, Russian occupiers attacked Dnipro – damaged an industrial enterprise, a rehabilitation center, residential buildings and garages; 2 people were injured as a result of the impact.
• The Air Force later reported that during the morning attack on the Dnipro, the Russians struck for the first time with an intercontinental ballistic missile. According to UP sources, it was a “Rubezh” missile, which is a potential carrier of a nuclear charge.

Know more: The Russian attack on Ukraine with an RS-26 “Rubezh” intercontinental ballistic missile. What is known about her