Russia's Strategic Missile Forces to be fully digitalized by 2020

The Russian military has just released a statement saying that their Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) will switch entirely to digital data transmission technology by 2020.

According to the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry, missile launch centers down to the division level, as well as the Communications Center of the entire SMF, training facilities and the Peter the Great Military Academy in Moscow and its branch in Serpukhov, are now equipped with digital telecommunications equipment.

Russian ballistic missile. Photo: Sputnik.

Over the past four years, new digital communication systems of SMF divisions have been handed over to command posts across Russia. At the same time, satellite communication centers have been modernized with short- and ultra-short-wave radio stations and repair centers.

“If the current pace of modernization is maintained, by 2020 the Russian Strategic Missile Forces will be 100% equipped with digital data transmission technologies,” the statement said./.

According to VOV