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  • Russia Test-Fires Yars Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

    RUSSIA TEST-FIRES YARS INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE

    April 14, 2014 - 16:59 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - The Russian Strategic Missile Forces test-fired on
    Monday, April 14, an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile
    from a launch site in the country's northwest, the Defense Ministry
    said, according to RIA Novosti.

    According to a ministry's spokesman, Col. Igor Yegorov, the launch
    was carried out at 10.40 am Moscow time (06:40 GMT) from a mobile
    launcher at the Plesetsk space center.

    The test was successful as the simulated warhead hit a designated
    target at the Kura test range on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula,
    Yegorov said.

    The fifth-generation RS-24 Yars (NATO reporting name SS-29) is an
    upgraded version of the Topol-M ballistic missile that was first
    tested in 2007.

    The RS-24 ICBM can carry multiple independently-targetable nuclear
    warheads designed to evade missile defense systems to a range of
    12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles).

    The Defense Ministry previously said the Topol-M and RS-24 ballistic
    missiles would be the mainstays of the ground-based component of
    Russia's nuclear triad and would account for no less than 80 percent
    of the SMF's arsenal by 2016.

    http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140414/189218065/Russia-Tests-Fires-Yars-Ballistic-Missile.html

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