Russia to Develop Precision Conventional ICBM

                 
Russia is on the verge of developing a non-nuclear precision-guided payload capability for its new hundred-ton class liquid-fueled ICBM if need be, Strategic Missile Forces (RSVN) Commander Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev said on Friday.                 

"The availability of a powerful liquid-fueled ICBM allows us the capability of creating a strategic high-accuracy weapons system with a conventional payload with practically global range, if the US does not pull back from its program for creating such missile systems," he said, according to Russian state run media Novosti.                               
The new liquid-fuel ICBM [Intercontinental ballistic missile] will be able to penetrate any missile defense system likely to emerge in the near future, he said.                  
Russia is developing a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to replace all its current "fifth-generation" long-range missile systems including the Yars and Topol M, Karakayev said .                               

It is the first formal announcement from the RSVN [Strategic Rocket Forces] command that the liquid-fueled ICBM would be deployed; but previously unnamed sources had said it would be deployed by 2014.