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To: Jim Robinson; crosslink; hoosiermama; caww

Highly unconfirmed: Interfax have posted an unconfirmed report that Russia has test fired an IBCM -
Tweet from Alexander Marquardt of ABC: Russia just test fired an ICBM - Interfax http://www.interfax.ru/russia/362745

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/ukraine-crisis-shots-fired-crimea-airbase

less than 1m ago Russia test-fires ICBM - state news reports
Reuters picks up a report by state-run RIA quoting a Russian defense ministry spokesman as saying that Russia successfully test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

Reuters:

The Strategic Rocket Forces launched an RS-12M Topol missile from the southerly Astrakhan region near the Caspian Sea and the dummy warhead hit its target at a proving ground in Kazakhstan, the state-run news agency RIA cited Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Yegorov as saying.

The RIA report in Russian is here.


62 posted on 03/04/2014 11:13:04 AM PST by maggief
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/russia-test-fires-intercontinental-balli-idUKL6N0M14IW20140304

RUSSIA TEST-FIRES INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE - RIA CITES DEFENCE MINISTRY
Tue Mar 4, 2014 6:54pm GMT

RUSSIA TEST-FIRES INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE - RIA CITES DEFENCE MINISTRY


63 posted on 03/04/2014 11:14:00 AM PST by maggief
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