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-defense or dealing with an immediate threat to ICBM facility equipment. Also carried is a Eleron-3SV UAV. This is a battery powered, 4.3 kg (7.49 pounds) UAV travelling at speeds of from 70 to 130 kilometers an hour. Flight endurance of up to 2 hours, and maximum altitude of 5,000 meters (16,000 feet). It is launched by throwing it and can land by flying close to the ground and shutting its engine off. Eleron-3SV carries a day/night vidcam and can transmit video back to the operators from up to 15 kilometers away.