From the range "Kapustin Yar" made a test launch ICBM "Topol"
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The main defense department of the country reports that an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-12M Topol has been launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region. The report says that the target at the Kazakhstani Sary-Shagan test site was hit. RIA News cites a statement by Colonel Igor Yegorov, representative of the press service and information department of the Ministry of Defense on the Strategic Missile Forces
17 November 2015 of the year 15 hour 12 minutes Moscow time combat crews of the Strategic Missile Forces from the State Central Interspecific Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region conducted a test launch of the PC-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
In addition, the Ministry of Defence reported the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a military spacecraft from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The report says that the rocket was launched under the control of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces - Commander of the Space Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Golovko.
From the message of the press service management and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Two minutes after the launch, the Soyuz-2.1b booster was taken to escort by means of the ground-based automated control complex of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.
At the estimated time, the space head of the Soyuz-2.1b space rocket of the middle class, as part of the Fregat upper stage and spacecraft, was regularly separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket.
After some time, information appeared that the newest satellite of the Ministry of Defense was put into orbit.
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