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Russia Conducts Successful Launch of Topol ICBM

Sputnik News

16:32 12.10.2016(updated 16:34 12.10.2016)

The training warhead successfully hit a simulated target on the Kamchatka peninsula.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian military conducted Wednesday a successful launch of an RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Plesetsk space center, with its warhead hitting a simulated target, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"A training warhead… struck a simulated target on the firing range on the Kamchatka peninsula," the ministry said in a statement.

The RS-12M Topol (SS-25 Sickle) is a single-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile, which entered service in 1985.

It has a maximum range of 10,000 km (6,125 miles) and can carry a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 550 kilotons.

© Sputnik



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