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With the size of Russia's SLBM stockpile, this doesn't seem to change the deterrence equation, according to the Wikipedia article.

It seems like this allows more orgs within Russian military industrial complex to grab development money. It probably reduces their perceived need to pay for the manned submarine leg of the nuclear tripod in the upcoming decades.

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> With the size of Russia's SLBM stockpile, this doesn't seem to change the deterrence equation

Status-6 seems like a hedge against the possibility of those SLBMs being rendered obsolete by a theorized missile defense program like Brilliant Pebbles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles

Brilliant Pebbles called for thousands of satellites in LEO, which was impractical when it was originally proposed. But SpaceX has since demonstrated their ability to launch constellations this large on a relatively small budget.

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