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Friday, October 11, 2013

Russia test-fires nuclear-capable missile

SS-27 Topol-M (RS-12M)Russia said Thursday it had successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a nuclear-capable missile that entered into service in the Soviet era and had been due to be scrapped.

A defence ministry spokesman said the RS-12M Topol had hit its target at a test range that Russia leases from Kazakhstan after it was fired from the Kapustin Yar military site near the Caspian Sea.

“The exercise head of the rocket hit the hypothetical target on the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan,” spokesman Igor Yegorov told the Interfax news agency.

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