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Russia Scraps Rail Launcher, Eighth This Year

October 10, 2005 :: Interfax :: News

Russia is destroying another railway-based mobile missile launcher, the eighth rail launch pad destroyed this year, reports Interfax. The scrapping of the launcher is taking place this week at the Strategic Missile Troops’ central workshop in Bryansk. Colonel-General Nikolay Solovtsov was quoted by Interfax-Military News Agency as saying that all rail launchers would be destroyed: “We cannot prolong service lives indefinitely. So, to our regret, we have to say goodbye to the rail-based missile launchpad.” A ninth launcher is set to be destroyed later this year. (Article)

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