Russia tests ICBM that beats anti-ballistic missile: reports

Moscow, Aug 28 (PTI) Russia Thursday launched an
intercontinental ballistic missile (I.C.B.M.) that beats anti-
ballistic missile (A.B.M.) systems in hitting high-security
facilities, media reports said.

The Topol (RS-12M) I.C.B.M., launched from the Plesetsk
cosmodrome, is equipped with features designed to defeat
A.B.M.B. systems. It flew 6,000 kilometres and succesfully hit
a target on the Kura testing ground, in Kamchatka in Russia's
Far East, the Interfax news agency said.

"The experimental combat part of the missile has hit the
target on the testing ground on the Kamchatka peninsula with
high precision, demonstrating an ability to effectively hit
high-security facilities," Alexander Vovk, the head of the
RVSN information service, was quoted as saying by Interfax.

"Experience shows the most economical and quickly
achievable countermeasures against the development of a
missile-defence system are so-called asymmetrical measures,"
he said, adding that the measures include the missile being
less detectable and its path less predictable, foiling
missile-detection systems. PTI
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