Rs 24 Yars Ярс Russian Intercontinental Nuclear Ballistic missile

The RS24 Yars (RS ракета стратегическая (strategic missile)) modification 24) also known as RT24 Yars or Topol MR (Russian: PC24 Ярс, NATO reporting name: SS29 or SS27 ) is a Russian MIRVequipped, thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile first tested on May 29, 2007, after a secret military R D project, to replace the older R36 and UR100N that have been in use for nearly 50 years. START Treaty prohibited increasing the number of warheads attributed to ICBMs, so Russia claimed the RS24 was a completely new ICBM to justify the designation SS29 instead of SS27 Mod 2, to circumvent treaty prohibition. The US National Air and Space Intelligence Center NASIC always believed that Yars was just a Topol M in violation of the START Treaty, something that is reflected in both the Mod 2 designation and the illustrations showing the SS27 Mod 1 and Mod 2 to be identical. It is essentially the same missile as the Mod 1 version TopolM except the payload bus has been modi