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Russia test-fires missiles in large-scale drill
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-13 08:57 MOSCOW -- Russia on Sunday test-fired several types of missiles, including intercontinental ones, as part of a month-long war game, local media reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev watched the launching of the RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk test ground, which hit a set target in Kamchatka of Russia's Far East. The nuclear-powered missile submarine Zelenograd of the Pacific Fleet fired a ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk near the Pacific, which hit a target in the Chizha testing ground in northern Russia, Interfax cited naval spokesman Igor Dygalo as saying. Yekaterinburg of the Northern Fleet, also a nuclear-powered missile submarine, launched another intercontinental missile from the Arctic Barents Sea, which also hit a designated target in the Far East. The launches of the missiles were part of the month-long Stability 2008 strategic command-post exercise that started on September 22. |