DefenceTalkRussia conducted several ballistic missile tests on Thursday from “land, air and sea” as part of its strategic nuclear programme, the Defence ministry announced. A “Topol” intercontinental ballistic missile was fired from the Plesetsk testing ground in the northwest of the country and three ballistic missiles were launched by two nuclear missile submarines (SSBNs), two […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-conducts-ballistic-missile-tests-70701/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Strategic Missile Forces test-fired on Saturday a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile from a launch site in northwestern Russia, the country’s Defense Ministry said. “The (MBR) RT-2PM2 ,Topol-M’, a silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile, was launched on November 1, at 9:20 a.m. [local time, or 6:20 GMT] from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome,” the ministry said in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-topol-m-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-60954/

DefenceTalkRussia on Tuesday carried out a successful test-launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, news agencies reported citing the defence ministry, amid a standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine. Interfax and ITAR-TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying a successful test of the RS-12M Topol ICBM had been carried out from Russia’s Kapustin Yar […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-conducts-test-launch-of-ballistic-missile-59655/

DefenceTalkRussia on Thursday test-launched several ballistic missiles during planned exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin, news reports said, as a crisis raged in neighboring Ukraine. The Russian military fired a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from its northern test site in Plesetsk, as well as “several” shorter-range missiles from its submarines in the Northern and Pacific […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-several-ballistic-missiles-59530/

DefenceTalkRussia 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 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-test-fires-nuclear-capable-missile-rs-12m-topol-49353/