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Russia has flexed its military might with a test firing of a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, state officials have revealed.
The RS-24 Yars was test fired yesterday afternoon from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the north-west of the country.
Russia's Defence Ministry said: "On September 20, a test launch of the solid-fuel mobile intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 Yars equipped with a multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle [MIRV] was conducted from Plesetsk space center by the Yoshkar-Ola missile unit."
Its multiple warhead payload successfully hit the Kura target range in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East , the Russian Ministry of Defence said.