RS-24 Yars Missile Test-Fired
Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 Yars has been test fired from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in the country’s northwest.
The missile’s dummy warheads with given accuracy hit a target at the Kura range in Kamchatka in the Russian Far East.
“On December 26, 2014 at 11:02 am, Moscow time, the solid-propellant RS-24 Yars mobile ground ICBM with a multiple warhead was test fired from the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome by a combined combat crew of the RVSN and Aerospace Defense Forces,” Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman for the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Colonel Igor Yegorov was quoted as saying by TASS today.
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