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Strategic Topol-M missile successfully hits conditional target in Kamchatka 5180116.
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Defence & Security News - Russia
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The Russian Strategic Missile Forces jointly with the Aerospace Forces successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic silo-based Topol-M missile from Plesetsk cosmodrome, the press service of the Russian defense ministry said.
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 The Topol-M missile (Photo V. Kuzmin) |
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"The exercise warhead hit the conditional target with high precision at the range in Kamchatka Peninsula. The launch confirmed the sustainability of flight and technical characteristics of the missiles of that type," it said.
The three-stage hard-fuel silo-based Topol-M missile as well as its mobile option was designed by the Moscow Institute of Heat Technologies. Tests began in 1994 and the silo-based missile became operational in 2000. The firing range is 11 thousand kilometers and the takeoff weight is 46.5 tons. Payload is 1.2 tons. The missile is armed with one warhead. |
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