Photo: SS-27 Mod 2 launch photo
Russia Tests Multi-Warhead ICBM -- Washington Free Beacon
Flight test comes amid heightened tensions over Ukraine
Russia’s military carried out a flight test of a new multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday amid growing tensions with the United States over the crisis in Ukraine.
The SS-27 Mod 2 road-mobile ICBM was launched around 2:40 a.m. EST from Russia’s Plesetsk launch facility, located about 500 miles north of Moscow.
“The main purpose of the launch is to validate the reliability of a batch of this class of missiles made at the Votkinsk Plant,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Yegorov told state-run Interfax-AVN.
An unspecified number of simulated nuclear warheads landed at an impact range on the Kura test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East, Yegorov said. The distance is around 3,500 miles.
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My Comment: Russia is busy modernizing their nuclear forces .... a modernization effort that started a few years back. But with tensions being as high as they are today .... ICBM tests are now getting the attention that in calmer times would be ignored
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Sorry for so many vids, but they seem so appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPlb5EFKj-g
Do not apologize for the vids James. I enjoy watching them.
Thanks, but I know some people go hog wild and I think it eats up band width.
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