Russia tests nuclear-capable ballistic missiles

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News ID: 14783
Asia » Asia
Publish Date: 16:35 - 27 October 2017
TEHRAN, October 27 - Russia conducted test launch of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles on Thursday as part of a training exercise for the country's strategic nuclear forces.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Russian defence ministry released a video showing a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile being test fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, hitting a target at the Kura military testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula thousands of kilometres (miles) away.

The ministry said test launches involved land, air, and submarine-based ballistic missiles.

Kremlin on Friday (Ocotber 27) said that President Vladimir Putin has personally overseen the launch of four nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.

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