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Russia Tests Topol-M

December 24, 2004 :: LA Times :: News

While the West prepares for Christmas, Russia today launched a Topol-M ballistic missile, its last ballistic missile test reportedly scheduled for 2004. It is also the last test of the Topol-M (SS-27) before it is put into full combat service. The land-based missile—the mobile version of which was tested today for the fourth time—was launched from the Plesetsk test site in the northern Arkhangelsk region. It traveled to and successfully hit its target at the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka peninsula.
        This test brings the total number of Russian ICBM/SLBM launches in 2004 to fifteen. They were as follows:

RIA Novosti carried the following description of the Topol-M characteristics earlier this week:


Length (incl. warhead) - 22.7 meters, diameter - 1.95 meters, takeoff weight - 47.2 tons, payload - 1.2 tons, operational range - over 10,000 kilometers. It has three engines, which enable the vehicle to supercede the cruising speed of all previously made peers.
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