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February 23, 2021: After nearly a decade of development, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces have finally received 70 production models of the Typhoon-M 8x8 armored vehicles. These are being used to enhance security around ICBM bases. Typhoon-M is also known as the BPDM 15TM56M, and is described as a security vehicle able to detect a wide variety of threats and suspicious activity around these missile bases, which are in thinly populated rural areas. Typhoon M carries a crew of four and is equipped with ELINT (Electronic intelligence) and ECM (electronic countermeasures) equipment. In short Typhoon can detect nearly all electronic transmissions in the vicinity of the ICBM base and use its ECM equipment to jam or degrade those signals. Typhoon-M is also equipped with the same thermal vision device and ground surveillance radar found on the latest T-90 tanks. There is a RWS (remote weapons system) armed with a 7.62mm machine-gun for self-d
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They include tactical and special tactical exercises with missile regiments and missile divisions, as well as a number of command-and-staff exercises with missile formations