Back قوات الصواريخ الاستراتيجية (روسيا) Arabic Strateji Raket Qoşunları Azerbaijani Ракетни войски със стратегическо предназначение Bulgarian Tropes de Míssils de Designació Estratègica de la Federació Russa Catalan Strategische Raketentruppen Russlands German Στρατηγικές Δυνάμεις Πυραύλων Greek Tropas de Misiles de Designación Estratégica de la Federación Rusa Spanish Venemaa strateegilised raketiväed Estonian نیروهای راهبردی موشکی Persian Forces des missiles stratégiques de la fédération de Russie French
| Strategic Rocket Forces | |
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| Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya | |
 Emblem of the Strategic Rocket Forces | |
| Founded | 17 December 1959 |
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| Branch |  Russian Armed Forces |
| Type | Strategic missile force |
| Role | Strategic missile deterrence |
| Size | 50,000 personnel (2020)[1] |
| Headquarters | Vlasikha, 2.5 km northwest of Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast |
| Motto(s) | "После нас - тишина" ("After us - silence") |
| March | Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov |
| Anniversaries | 17 December |
| Equipment | Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles |
| Engagements | Cuban Missile Crisis Able Archer 83 Norwegian rocket incident Russo-Ukrainian War[2] |
| Website | Official website |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |  Colonel General Sergei Karakayev |
| Notable commanders | Marshal Igor Sergeyev |
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The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; Russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской Федерации (РВСН РФ), romanized: Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, lit. 'Strategic Purpose Rocketry Troops of the Russian Federation') is a separate-troops branch of the Russian Armed Forces that controls Russia's land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It was formerly part of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1959 to 1991.
The Strategic Rocket Forces was created on 17 December 1959 as part of the Soviet Armed Forces as the main force for operating all Soviet nuclear ground-based intercontinental, intermediate-range ballistic missile, and medium-range ballistic missile with ranges over 1,000 kilometers. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, assets of the Strategic Rocket Forces were in the territories of several new states in addition to Russia, with armed nuclear missile silos in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. The three of them transferred their missiles to Russia for dismantling and they all joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Complementary strategic forces within Russia include the Russian Aerospace Forces' Long Range Aviation and the Russian Navy's ballistic missile submarines. Together the three bodies form Russia's nuclear triad.
- ^ https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IF11603.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Institute for the Study of War". Archived from the original on August 31, 2024. Retrieved August 31, 2024.