The test-launch was
aimed at confirming the missile system’s flight characteristics, the Defense
Ministry said.
MOSCOW, September 30.
/TASS/. Russia has test-fired a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM) from the Plesetsk spaceport in the country’s north against a target in
Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, the press office of the Defense Ministry
reported on Monday.
"A Topol-M
stationary (silo-based) solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile was
test-launched from the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome on September 30,
2019," the press office said in a statement.
The test-launch was
aimed at confirming the missile system’s flight characteristics, the Defense
Ministry said.
"The launch’s
assigned tasks have been accomplished in full. The warhead equivalent arrived
at the designated point [the Kamchatka Peninsula]," the ministry said.
The test-launch has
again confirmed the technical fitness of Topol-M ICBMs that are on combat duty
in Russia’s Strategic Missile Force, the ministry added.
The Topol-M
intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal
Technology has a firing range of over 11,000 km. The missile carries a warhead
with a yield of up to 1 megatonne. Topol-M ICBMs are operational both in their
silo-based and mobile versions in Russia’s Strategic Missile Force.
Source: ITAR-TASS
30-09-2019
