The RS-24 Yars is a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile developed from the earlier Topol-M design and modified to carry multiple independently targetable warheads. Designed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology and built at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, it was first tested in May 2007 and entered service with Russia's Strategic Missile Troops in 2010. It is a three-stage, solid-fuel missile with a range of roughly 11,000 to 12,000 kilometers, deployed from both silos and road-mobile transporter erector launchers.
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has been deployed operationally since 2010
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The RS-24 has been deployed operationally since 2010, with more than 50 launchers operational as of June 2017. Yars does not appear to be a Russian word but the Slavic root яр (yar) is present, being a bank or steep ravine, consistent with the nomenclature of another newly fielded Russian missile, the RS-26 Rubezh (РС-26 Рубеж) meaning a boundary or outer limit.
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The RS-24 Yars (РС-24 Ярс - ракета стратегическая (strategic missile)-modification 24) also known as Topol-MR, NATO reporting name SS-29 or SS-27 Mod 2), is a Russian MIRV-equipped, thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile first tested on May 29, 2007, after a secret military R&D project.
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