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Russia Successfully Tests Ballistic Missiles from Land, Air & Sea

Russia Successfully Tests Ballistic Missiles from Land, Air & Sea
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Russia carried out a number of ballistic missile test-launches from "land, air and sea" amid the massive military drills that involve Russia's strategic forces, according to the country's Defense Ministry.

Russia Successfully Tests Ballistic Missiles from Land, Air & Sea

The Russian Defense Ministry released a statement on Thursday, saying that a Topol-type ballistic missile, one of the country's most sophisticated weapons, was fired earlier in the day from the Plesetsk testing ground in the northwest of the country and hit a designated target on the Kura testing grounds in Kamchatka Peninsula, northwest Russia.

The statement further noted that two of its nuclear missile submarines [SSBNs] had also launched three ballistic missiles -- two from the Pacific Fleet stationed in the Okhotsk Sea, north of Japan, and one from the Northern Fleet deployed in the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean.

The missiles from the Pacific Fleet hit targets in the Chizha testing range in the northwestern region of Arkhangelsk, and the missile from the Pacific Fleet struck a target on the Kura testing grounds, the statement added.

Russia's strategic Tupolec-160, Tupolev-85MS and Tupolev-22MZ bombers were also deployed in the drills to demonstrate their power as they launched air-based cruise missiles at ground targets in the Kura and Pemboi testing ranges, and one in Russian military terrain in Kazakhstan, the ministry said.

"All objectives of the training have been successfully completed," the statement read.

Earlier in September, Russia successfully test-launched a Topol missile equipped with a new advanced warhead. It was designed to penetrate the missile defenses of a potential enemy more effectively.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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