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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Russia is to replace "Satan"

Russia has answered the US plans to settle in Poland and Czech antimissile defence system

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usRussia has answered the US plans to settle in Poland and Czech antimissile defence system. First reported test of the new RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRV) was conducted at Plesetsk. “The test launch of the RS-24 (ICBM) occurred at 14:20 Moscow time ( 1:20 GMT) at Plesetsk and at the designated time the warheads struck the assigned region at the Kura base on Kamchatka," a spokesman for Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces told the news agency Interfax.

New ICBM is to replace missiles RS-20 «Voevoda» (SS-18 Satan) and RS-18 (SS-19 Stilet), that could carry six and ten warheads. RS-24 is a proper answer on the US antimissile defence shield designed to prevent attacks just of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Yesterday at Kapustin Yar Proving Ground in the Astrakhan Oblast new missile R-500 for the mobile complex Iskander-M was successfully tested.

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