Russia launches its new ICBM from Plesetsk space centre

Russia launches its new ICBM from Plesetsk space centre
by Staff Writers
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 16, 2014

File image: Plesetsk space centre.

The Russian Strategic Missile Troops have successfully test fired an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile with a multiple re-entry vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, a Russian Defence Ministry press service official for the Strategic Missile Troops, Colonel Igor Yegorov, told a news briefing earlier this Monday.

The experimental warheads arrived in the designated area on the Kura test range in the Kamchatka Peninsula. The set goals of the launch have been fully met, Colonel Yegorov said, RIA news reports.

Source: Voice of Russia

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