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Russia looks beyond New START with Kedr

20th April 2021 - 13:30 GMT | by Leonid Nersisyan

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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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Leonid Nersisyan is a defence analyst and research fellow at APRI Armenia. He is a …

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