Strategic Missile Troops ||This article needs additional
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стратегического назначения Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo
naznacheniya Strategic Missile Troops SRF emblem and flag
|Active||December 17, 1959 – present| |Country||Russian
Federation (earlier – Soviet Union)| |Role||Strategic Missile
Deterrence| |Garrison/HQ||Вла́сиха (Vlasikha), 2.5 km northwest
of Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast| |Colonel General Sergei Viktrovich
Karakayev| The Strategic Missile Troops or Strategic Rocket
Forces of the Russian Federation or RVSN RF are a military
branch of the Russian Military that controls Russia's land-based
ICBMs. The RVSN was first formed in the Soviet Armed Forces, and
when the USSR collapsed in 1990–1991, it effectively changed its
name from the Soviet to the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. The
Strategic Rocket Forces were created on December 17, 1959 as the
main Soviet force used for attacking an enemy's offensive
nuclear weapons, military facilities, a