Russia yesterday test-fired several types of missiles, including
intercontinental ones, as part of a month-long war game, local media reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev watched the launching of the RS-12M Topol
intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk test ground, which hit a
set target in Kamchatka of Russia's Far East.
The nuclear-powered missile submarine Zelenograd of the Pacific Fleet fired a
ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk near the Pacific, which hit a target
in the Chizha testing ground in northern Russia, Interfax cited naval spokesman
Igor Dygalo as saying.
Yekaterinburg of the Northern Fleet, also a nuclear-powered missile
submarine, launched another intercontinental missile from the Arctic Barents
Sea, which also hit a designated target in the Far East.
The launches of the missiles were part of the month-long Stability 2008
strategic command-post exercise that started on Sept. 22.