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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
On April 14, a mobile missile launched at the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia successfully hit the target thousands of miles away at the Kura test center in the Kamchatka peninsula.
RS-24 Yars is an advanced version of the Topol-M ballistic missile.
It is the Russian Strategic Missile Forces’ main stock in its impressive ICBM arsenal.
The state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported that the RS-24 Yars will be the primary weapon of choice for Russia’s entire ground-based nuclear deterrence strategy, taking a lion’s share or up to 80 percent of all ballistic missiles controlled by Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces.
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