RUSSIAN ROCKETS: ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: "If you were a cash-stripped missile force with a large number of missiles to decommission, how would you do it? Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces, facing deactivation of the some SS-18 'Satan' ICBMs under the START I Treaty, have decided to use the silo-based missiles to launch commercial satellites, according to the Moscow Gazeta.ru website."

(Via Defense Tech.)