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Russia Successfully Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

Russia Successfully Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

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Russian forces conducted a training and combat launch of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, with training warheads hitting the designated area at the Kura test range in Kamchatka, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

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"At the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome, a training and combat launch of a solid-fuel mobile intercontinental ballistic missile was carried out," the ministry said in a statement. All assigned tasks were completed in full, the ministry said, adding that the Strategic Missile Forces then practiced redeploying the launch battery of a road-mobile missile system to a remote area. The purpose of the launch was to confirm the tactical, technical and flight characteristics of the missile system, the ministry said.

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