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Russian Strategic Missile Troops to test-launch RS-24 ICBM, in service in 2009.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by corporate-owned Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN website

Moscow, 22 October: Russia's Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN) will test-launch an RS-24 multiple-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile before the end of the year, RVSN Commander Col-Gen Nikolay Solovtsov told journalists on Wednesday [22 October].

"Tests of the new missile system, equipped with RS-24 missiles, have been successful. Two launches were carried out in 2007. One launch of such a missile is scheduled to take place from a launch pad at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2008. Land-based tests of units and systems are in progress. The new missile system with …

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