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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
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