Russian nuclear missile hits mock target 6,000 km away

September 14, 2017

Press TV:

The Russian military has successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ahead of a major military drill slated to begin in a few days.

The RS-24 Yars missile was fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the northern city of Arkhangelsk, and successfully hit its target at a military range in Kura in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, after flying a distance of around 6,000 kilometers (about 3,700 miles).

“The main purpose of the launch is to confirm the reliability of rockets of the same class. The warheads successfully reached their target – the Kura testing range in Kamchatka. All aims of the test were achieved,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

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