May 8, 2014
MOSCOW, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia's strategic forces (click here) conducted planned exercises Thursday in the country under the supervision of President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.
During the war games, a TU-95MC strategic bomber launched six air-to-ground cruise missiles, which successfully hit their targets in the Western military district.
In the North, the strategic missile forces launched a Topol RS-12M inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the sub-polar site of Plesetsk. The ICBM hit its target in the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the Defense Ministry was quoted as saying in a statement....
...Meanwhile, a TOS-1 multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon
system failed to operate properly during drills in the Central military
district. Putin has ordered the district's commander to investigate the
cause of the failure....
MOSCOW, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia's strategic forces (click here) conducted planned exercises Thursday in the country under the supervision of President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.
During the war games, a TU-95MC strategic bomber launched six air-to-ground cruise missiles, which successfully hit their targets in the Western military district.
In the North, the strategic missile forces launched a Topol RS-12M inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the sub-polar site of Plesetsk. The ICBM hit its target in the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the Defense Ministry was quoted as saying in a statement....
...Meanwhile, a TOS-1 multiple rocket launcher and thermobaric weapon
system failed to operate properly during drills in the Central military
district. Putin has ordered the district's commander to investigate the
cause of the failure....
