The test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) RS-12M “Topol” near Astrakhan took place – “Voronezh Courier” – the newspaper online

Testing was conducted at Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan region.

The command of air and missile defense aerospace forces conducted tactical exercises with live firing on the range “Ashuluk” in the Astrakhan region, said the management of the press center and Information Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. On it informs RIA Novosti news agency referring to the press-center of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN).

He said that” the purpose of the launch was to test promising warheads of intercontinental ballistic missiles ».

In the press center RVSN (Strategic Rocket Forces) said that training warhead ballistic missiles with a given accuracy successfully hit its target at the site” Sary-Shagan “in Kazakhstan. It is noted that only the road test and measuring complex landfill permit testing of future combat equipment, the ability to overcome missile defense system.