Strategic Rocket Forces
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| Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya | |
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| Founded | 17 December 1959 |
| Country | Russia (1992–present) Commonwealth of Independent States (1991–1992) Soviet Union (1959–1991) |
| Branch | Russian Armed Forces |
| Type | Strategic missile force |
| Role | Strategic missile deterrence |
| Size | 50,000 personnel (2020) |
| Headquarters | Vlasikha, 2.5 km northwest of Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast |
| Motto | "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 |
| Website | Official website |
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| Supreme Commander-in-Chief | President Vladimir Putin |
| Minister of Defense | Andrey Belousov |
| Commander | Colonel General Sergey Karakayev |
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The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF) is a separate combat arm 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. On 8 December 1991 according to Belovezha Accords, which dissolved the Soviet Union, the other 3 nuclear member states transferred Soviet missiles on their territory to Russia 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.