MOSCOW, June 2. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s Strategic Missile Force will make 12 test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) by the end of 2014, Strategic Missile Force spokesman, Colonel Igor Yegorov, said on Monday.
“Until the end of the year, 12 launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles of various types are planned,” he said, adding the exercise would include launches as part of R&D work for the development of promising missile systems, launches to test combat equipment and missile launches under a program of liquidation with the concurrent injection of spacecraft into orbit.