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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on August 28 that its forces had carried out a test launch of a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome.
“The training warheads arrived at the assigned area at the Kura training ground” on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the ministry said, adding that “all the assigned tasks have been fully completed.”
The ministry noted that Strategic Missile Forces units “trained redeployment to the launch battery deployment area with preparation and conduct of the launch.”
According to the statement, the purpose of the launch was “to confirm the tactical, technical, and flight characteristics of the missile system.”
While the ministry didn’t specify which ICBM was launched, footage from the test suggests that it was the RS-24 Yars, or a version of it.
The Yars is a three-stage solid-propellant ICBM developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology as an evolution of the Topol-M, featuring a modified post-boost vehicle that enables Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV) capability.
Measuring approximately 22.5 meters in length and 2 meters in diameter, it has a launch weight of about 49,600 kilograms and can be deployed either in hardened silos or on road-mobile 16×16 MZKT-79221 transporter-erector-launchers.
The missile achieves a range of 10,500–12,000 kilometers, reaches speeds of up to Mach 20–25, and is guided by an inertial system augmented by the GLONASS satellite navigation network, producing a circular error probable of roughly 150–250 meters.
It typically carries three to four — possibly up to six or more according to some estimates — independently targetable nuclear reentry vehicles, each with yields of 150–300 kilotons and a total payload of around 1,200 kilograms, along with penetration aids and decoys to help overcome missile defenses.
The ICBM test came after U.S. media reported that the CIA director’s recent trip to Moscow was to warn Moscow against any attack on NATO member states.
The Wall Street Journal, CBS News and other news outlets reported CIA director John Ratcliffe aimed to dissuade Russia from attacking NATO members amid U.S. intelligence assessments that Moscow could seek to test the alliance. These reports were dismissed by both Moscow and Washington.
U.S. President Donald Trump himself told Axios on August 27 that Ratcliffe delivered no such warning to Russia during his recent visit.
“I am not concerned … at all. There is no problem,” Trump said when asked about a possible Russian provocation against NATO countries.
The U.S. president went on to call Ratcliffe’s trip “standard business” and expressed puzzlement over the media accounts of it.
While the latest Russian missile test may have been conducted in response to recent U.S. media reports, it is even more possible that it was just a pre-planned routine test meant to improve readiness or aid in development. Such tests happen every year.
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if russia can’t even push afu out of donbas…imagine what usa will do to it…heheheh
if usa can’t even keep hormuz strait open and protect gulf states countries..imagine what russia will do to it….hhehehee
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if a child is born in the straight of hormuz. the child is automatically an american citizen. per king trumps international edict
how many taliban peniz pump jizz in your anuz?
yanks would piss their pants. just like korea. fastest retreat in military history
if the jewsa gets its arse handed to it by afghan and yemeni goat herders, imagine what china will do to it. heheheheh
the uaf with the full support of nato can do nothing but retreat. hehehhehe
if john ratcliffe foolishly offered warnings to russian counterparts. this launch could be the logical indirect response. just think of all the tricks and deceptions the us regime can no longer use from growing global unifying rejection. the old play book is dead. a nation to ignorant to adapt.
to arrogent to adapt
nato cannot keep russia penned up in ukraine while they take shots at them much longer.
…”approximately 22.5 meters in length and 2 meters in diameter, it has a launch weight of about 49,600 kilograms “… holy ma ma!… that’s a mighty massive warhead!… damn straight the carnival barker from d.c. got on his loudhailer to proclaim “all is well”!… imagine what one of those would do to london or paris?!!!
london, paris, and 5 other targets
maybe 80% of us nukes will just fizzle and pop, built in the 80s….
the us minuteman icbm developed in the late 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s, the us peacekeeper icbm meant to replace the minuteman were all decommissioned by september 19, 2005, and the minuteman replacement won’t be deployed before 20240. so you were saying?
after taliban goat herders pumped my fascist americunt anuz for 20 years w jizz i derp incel lick persian peniz for past 6 months🤣
i’ve seen bigger…. this is pathetic.
check the poseidon and sarmat!
yes, the visit was just to give a warning about hitting the eu…right. they couldn’t have done it on a secure line, oh no…had to be in person. horsehockey, they went in a very large cargo plane and it wasn’t just to carry vehicles.