Russia Test-Launches Stiletto ICBM

Russia yesterday conducted a successful test launch of its RS-18 Stiletto nuclear-capable ICBM, the Xinhua News Agency reported (see GSN, Oct. 11).

The missile was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and hit its target at the Kura training range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, a Defense Ministry source told ITAR-Tass.

“The launch was made under the plan of combat training of the Russian Armed Forces with the purpose of assessing the possibility of extending the life of this type of ballistic missiles,” said the source (Xinhua/People’s Daily, Oct. 20).

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