On 16 December Russian broadsheet Izvestia published a story claiming that the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) had decided to beef up its Iskander missile brigades with an additional battalion set each. A current 9K720 Iskander-M system brigade set comprises three battalions with four 9P78-1 transporter-erector-launchers (TEL) per battalion. Each TEL can launch two 9M723 tactical ballistic missiles or two 9M728 ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs). If the proposal goes ahead each brigade would be augmented by four more TELs.
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