RUSSIA TO TEST LAUNCH NEWEST BALLISTIC MISSILE BY YEAREND
October 3, 2013 – 19:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – The test launch of Russia’s newest intercontinental
ballistic missile, codenamed Rubezh, could take place before the
end of the year, a high-ranking defense industry official told RIA
Novosti on Thursday, October 3, the news agency reported.
The RS-26, a solid-propellant ICBM, will supplement the Yars and
Topol-M missiles that are currently in service with Russia’s Strategic
Missile Forces, the official said.
RS-26 specifications are currently classified, but an unnamed
missile industry expert cited by Vedomosti newspaper said the new
missile would most likely be equipped with a new warhead and system
to override missile defenses.
The expert cited by Vedomosti also played down speculation that RS-26
was designed in violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear
Forces Treaty, which prohibits the United States and Russia from
owning ballistic missiles with ranges between 500 kilometers and
5,500 kilometers.
In June, Russia tested elements of a new ICBM that Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense industry, hailed as a
“missile defense killer.”
The Defense Ministry was more reserved in its appraisal of the test,
carried out at the Kapustin Yar facility, between Volgograd and
Astrakhan, saying only “the [simulated] warhead hit a designated
target within the set time frame.”
The missile is to be manufactured at the Votkinsk plant in the Urals
republic of Udmurtia, where all solid-propellant missiles are made,
the official said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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