The Soviet-made Stilettos have been warehoused for several years but will now be deployed as the carriers of the first series of hypersonic glide vehicles in the next few years.
Hypersonic glide vehicles are designed to extend and ICBMS range and are launched off a carrier missile.
The glide vehicle is capable of flying in the dense layers of the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, manoeuvering along its flight path and by its altitude and breaching any anti-missile defence.
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov said said he had signed a contract on the production of the Vanguard hypersonic strategic system unveiled by President Vladimir Putin in his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on March 1.
Mr Borisov said: “We developed a new product, which, of course, has improved characteristics and a starting weight of over 200 tons, and increased energy capabilities that make it possible to practically use this missile from any direction.
“It can fly through both the North and South Pole due to the fact that it has significantly increased range in relation to the Satan missile.
“And the ability to derive a serious payload allows us to apply a variety of “stuffing” – combat units that, in combination with heavy false targets, effectively overcome all kinds of missile defense elements.
“It is necessary to solve the problem of selection, it is necessary to have a multi-echelon missile defense system, where interceptor missiles can be used on various sections of the ballistic trajectory.
“The most attractive, of course, is to shoot down a ballistic missile at the start, when it is in the active section of the flight.”
Russia’s Strategic Missile Force Commander Sergei Karakayev later specified that the Vanguard system’s trials had been successfully completed.
The SS-19 Stiletto missile is a heavy upgrade of the UR-100 missile complex developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s by the Design Bureau-52 led by Vladimir Chelomei.
It was accepted for service in 1980. Currently, Russia’s Strategic Missile Force operates 30 silo-based missiles of this type.
The announcement comes as tensions between the UK and Russia escalate in the wake of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter being poisoned in Salisbury on March 4.