Russia will deliver more stationary and mobile missile complexes Topol-M to the Strategic Missile Troops, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Moskovsky said on Saturday.

"The Topol-M complex is continuously included in the state order. Six or seven such complexes are ordered every year. The state program provides for the increase of the number of Topol-M complexes, to be delivered to the Strategic Missile Troops," Moskovsky was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

"The development of the strategic nuclear troops is the priority task of the state armament program. All that is connected with the strategic deterrence force is planned practically without deficit in the armament program," he said.

As to the development of heavy liquid-fuel intercontinental missiles with multiple warheads, Moskovsky said, "All that enhances the efficiency of the strategic troops is being designed and will continue to be designed."

"Quality, and not quantity characteristics are important for the maintenance of strategic parity ... We should plan effective steps and take asymmetrical measures, in order to ward off the threats that may emerge in the future," he added.

The state armament program, discussed and approved recently at a meeting of the military-industrial commission, "includes scientific finds, which will improve the efficiency of the strategic troops," Moskovsky said.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said earlier that land-based Topol-M and sea-based Bulava missile systems would be the basis of Russia's nuclear forces in the near future.

Source: Xinhua