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Friday, June 01, 2007

Minister: Russian Army To Receive New Missiles ‘Soon’

Russian will soon put into service the new missiles that were test-fired earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday.

“The tests were successful and that means that Russia’s army will very shortly get the Iskander complex already equipped with a high-precision missile which can be used for surgical long-range strikes,” Ivanov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency.

Russia’s strategic missile forces announced Tuesday that they had test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the RS-24, capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads in a move lauded as “reinforcing” Russia’s ability “to overcome anti-missile defense systems.”

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