Overview
- The Defense Ministry said Friday it carried out a combat training launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome that flew about 6,700 kilometres to impact at the Kura test range on Kamchatka.
- The ministry released video showing a forested mobile launcher firing a solid‑fuel missile and said the test confirmed the system’s tactical, technical and flight characteristics with all tasks completed.
- The ministry did not name the missile used, and some news outlets identified it as an RS‑24 Yars, creating differing public attributions of the system involved.
- At least one report described the launch as part of a coordinated demonstration of Russia’s nuclear triad that included a Sineva submarine launch and cruise missiles from Tu‑95 bombers and said President Putin watched by video link.
- The test continues a pattern of elevated strategic drills this year, follows a May exercise with Belarus, and could increase concern among NATO planners because road‑mobile, MIRV‑capable ICBMs are harder to track and could strain missile‑defence systems.