Moscow - Russia's military successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, sending the rocket across Russia's vast continental mass to hit a target on the Pacific Ocean Kamchatka Peninsula, defence officials said.
'The test launch of the RS-24 (ICBM) occurred at 1420 Moscow time (1120 GMT) at Plesetsk and at the designated time the warheads struck the assigned region at the Kura base on Kamchatka,' a spokesman for Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces told the news agency Interfax.
The RS-24, a missile with multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles, is to replace the current RS-18 and RS-20 rockets, known in the West as the SS-19 Stiletto and SS-18 Satan, respectively.
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At the same time, Russian politicians have said Moscow will find an 'adequate response' to US plans to build a missile defence shield around Europe. Washington says the shield is aimed against rogue missiles from North Korea or Iran, but many in Moscow say Russia is the true target and that its existing technologies will be able to best the defence.
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