Russia carried out an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test in the country’s remote northwest ahead of a huge war game scheduled to begin later this week that will involve thousands of troops near the Belarus western border with NATO countries.
The launch of the RS-24 Yars missile, a weapon with a reported range of 7,500 miles and capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead, was necessary to “confirm the reliability” of Russia’s missile stocks.
The test missile flew from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk to a military range in Kura in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, more than 3,000 miles away—the standard route …read more
Source: Protothema
