Good they are training so intensively, we need more of this.

Global warming is a myth invented to impose more “green”(dy) taxes on the modern citizen-sheep.The Great Global Warming swindle should be made compulsory viewing to debunk this myth,the environmental taliban must be stopped.

When Ivanov said about 69 missiles ,he was referring to the mobile RS12M2 version of the Topol-M, we still don’t know how many silo-based ICBMs they plan to procure,probably 63 by 2015 considering there are 108 silos in Tatischevo and there are already 45 on duty, and it seems in line with the procurement plan of 2007, 3 Bulavas for testing 6 silo based Topol-Ms and 8 mobile ones,you can do the count yourself and it gives us a total of 72 mobile launchers by 2015 and 108 silo based ,thus a total of 180 missiles.

http://www.nextwar.ru/index.php?art=articles/2006/04/20/bulava/index.htm
Very interesting on Topol and Bulava and about rearmament plans (in russian)

They had to get rid of these old missiles because these missiles are not NMD proof and the Russians aim to have an entirely high-tech missile force by 2015(and they are right) and I don’t really see any problem for the Topol to carry six warheads its throw weight is superior to that of the Bulava and the difference in diameter is very very small and also some Russians claim that the Topol is simply going to see its “head” modified and unified with that of the Bulava( Solomonov said it himself) So we’re probably going to see a missile with a slightly larger third stage,it’s technically possible.

Yes this press conference was really groundbreaking and we have confirmation now that the Topol-M will carry the same “head” as the Bulava (with six “city killer” warheads) but still I wonder how do they plan to achieve their goal of 2000 warheads with such a low production rate.To attain this goal they need to have about 200 Topol-Ms (200 x 6:1200 warheads) and at least 72 Bulavas (6 subs x 12 missiles x 6 warheads :432 in total ) and considering the production rate of one Tu-160 per year it gives us 300 additional warheads (25 bombers x 12 missiles ).
So they need to produce at least 17 Topols and 8 Bulavas if they are to meet this plan in 2015 as they said they plan to do.So it leaves some unanswered questions…

Yes I agree your point is very good and what I’d like to know is if the U.S. too intends to keep many of their strategic nukes on bombers or no ?