Russia Carries Out Simulated Missile Launch

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  • 07:34 AM, January 17, 2013
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Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) on Wednesday conducted a simulated missile launch.

 

According to the Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu watched over “the fulfillment of a special task, including a simulated missile launch”.

 

In 2012, the Russian military tracked about 40 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space rockets last year.

 

And as part of an early warning system, new radar stations that have been put into operation to track not only ballistic targets and space objects, but also aerodynamic targets.

 

The system will be even more effective following the creation of the Integrated Space Tracking and Combat Command and Control System. Russia is able to reliably detect ballistic missile launches and monitor and control all probable directions for a missile attack,

Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin was quoted as saying.

 

 

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