One of the most destructive weapons in Russia’s arsenal that is capable of reducing entire cities to smoldering craters has been involved in a military exercise conducted recently in the depths of Siberia.
RS-24 Yars is a solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile made by the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant. The missile s name is an acronym for “YAdernaya Raketa Sderzhivaniya,” or "Nuclear Deterrence Missile" in English.
The Yars missile system is a modified version of the Topol-M missile system. Russia began deploying Yars intercontinental ballistic missile systems in 2009.
Russia tested a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile that struck Russian satellite COSMOS 1408 and created a debris field in low Earth orbit on Nov. 15. According to U.S. Space Command