Russia looks beyond New START with Kedr
Mobile variant of the RS-24 Yars ICBM. (Photo: ITAR-TASS/Vadim Savitsky)
Design research work is underway in Russia on a new ICBM to replace the RS-24 Yars.
Russia is refreshing its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) inventory with plans to field a new-generation system to replace the RS-24 Yars — just two months after Moscow agreed to extend the New START nuclear arms treaty with the US.
According to a recent report from the Russian state-run TASS news agency, unnamed companies have begun to research a design for a new ICBM called Kedr ('Cedar').
Citing an industry source, TASS reported: ‘This is work within the framework of modernisation of strategic armaments. It is one of the areas of development of a new-generation missile system.’
Work on Kedr is
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