Russia"s newly appointed chief of Ground...

The Russian Defense Ministry said in June 2009 that the first Iskander battalion entered service with the Armed Forces in 2008 and the second would become operational in 2009. Their deployment location is secret.

"It is planned to equip a brigade of the Leningrad Military District with the Iskander advanced missile systems this year. However, I would not link that to the deployment by an adjacent state, Poland, of U.S. Patriot missiles," Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov said.

The Iskander-E (SS-26 Stone), which is an export version of the Iskander-M missile system in service with the Russian Army, is a tactical surface-to-surface missile complex designed to deliver high-precision strikes at a variety of ground targets at a range of up to 280 km (170 miles). It carries a single warhead with a payload of 400 kg to comply with the limits laid down by the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).

"These are the Russian Army"s development and construction plans," Postnikov

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