MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's first missile regiment equipped with mobile Topol-M ballistic missile systems will be put on combat duty in 2006, the missile's chief designer said Thursday.
Yuri Solomonov, director and chief designer at the Institute of Heat Technology, said other countries would be not able to design such missiles for another 15-20 years.
He also said Topol-M could be deployed as a silo-based or mobile system.
Russia has five missile regiments equipped with silo-based Topol-M missiles.
