Moscow, Oct 12: The Russian navy, air force and space forces successfully carried out a series of test firings of missiles on Saturday, defense officials said.
The Russian space forces test-fired RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile, a spokesman for the Russian space forces press service said.

The missile took off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, about 1,200 kilometres (800 miles) north of Moscow, and hit the target at the Kura test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, about 7,000 kilometres (4,200 miles) away, the spokesman said.

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The launch was carried out by the Strategic Rocket Forces and Space Forces in accordance with schedule of troops military training, he said.

Topol missiles have been on combat duty for 15 years and Russia periodically tests them to see if their lifetime can be extended.

The Russian navy's Northern and Pacific fleets successfully test-fired ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines in the Barents Sea to the north and the Sea of Okhotsk, a defense ministry spokesman said.

The purpose of the tests was "to check the efficiency of the military command bodies of the Russian armed forces," he said. Russian strategic bombers on Saturday launched cruise missiles as part of a training exercise, the Interfax news agency reported.

Two bombers, a Tu-160 and a Tu-95MS, launched the missiles against targets located on the military testing grounds in the Volga region after a 12-hour training flight, the news agency said. Bureau Report