{"id":195562,"date":"2023-11-04T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195562"},"modified":"2023-11-04T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:29:43","slug":"russias-nuclear-intercontinental-missile-went-off-course-in-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/russias-nuclear-intercontinental-missile-went-off-course-in-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia's nuclear intercontinental missile 'went off course' in tests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two major Russian tests of nuclear-capable missiles have gone wrong, says Ukrainian military intelligence.<\/p>\n
On 1 November Vladimir Putin’s forces ‘conducted an unsuccessful test of the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, which is the main element of the ground-based component of the Russian strategic nuclear forces’.<\/p>\n
The missile ‘went off course, as it did during the previous command and control exercises’ on 25 October, says the Ukrainian defence ministry’s main intelligence directorate.<\/p>\n
‘Similarly, the test launch of the RSM-56 Bulava ballistic missile from a\u2026.missile submarine on 25 October 2023 was unsuccessful, once again proving its insecurity.’<\/p>\n
Russia has not previously admitted to any missile test failures – indeed, it said the launches were successful.<\/p>\n
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The reported unsuccessful test of the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile which was launched on 25 October<\/p>\n
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Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch on April 20, 2022<\/p>\n
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Weapon nicknamed ‘Satan II’ \u2013 is capable of carrying ten or more nuclear warheads<\/p>\n
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The missile ‘Went off course’ according to Ukrainian\u00a0military intelligence<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s GUR intelligence agency did not make any claim as to how or where the rocket tests failed but if true this is an embarrassing setback for Moscow.<\/p>\n
The claims come as Russia has deployed its giant Sarmat missile system – known in the West as Satan-2 – with troops despite only one full-scale test, says Ukrainian intelligence.<\/p>\n
President Putin today visited the Red Square on the National Unity Day in Moscow as he met with the public.<\/p>\n
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President of Russia, Vladimir Putin (Pictured) today visited the Red Square on the National Unity Day in Moscow<\/p>\n
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Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (Pictured Left) with Putin\u00a0attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the Monument to Minin<\/p>\n
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Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and Putin in discussion during the ceremony in-front of\u00a0St Basil’s Cathedral<\/p>\n
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Putin (Pictured Centre) posing for pictures with members of the Young Army Cadets<\/p>\n
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Person taking a photo of Putin posing for a picture with a Young Army Cadet<\/p>\n
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Putin talking with Head of Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church Korniliy (Pictured left)<\/p>\n
This ‘unstoppable’ 15,880mph intercontinental missile system is the size of a 14-storey tower block.<\/p>\n
Satan-2 replaces RS-20 Voyevoda but the Ukrainians claim it ‘lacks any advantages in design, warhead or methods of overcoming missile defences’ and is an ‘unfinished, imperfect’ missile.<\/p>\n
Kyiv also claimed that delivery of new Tu-160M2 strategic bombers scheduled for 2023 has been postponed, ‘as the Russians have failed to resume production of a new version of the NK-32 engine.’<\/p>\n
Viktor Alksnis, a Soviet military tactician and politician known as the Black Colonel, had earlier suggested the Yars launch in October had failed, as indicated in a video of its smoke trail after launching from Plesetsk cosmodrome.<\/p>\n
He suggested ‘a rocket explosion in the acceleration section of the flight path’.<\/p>\n