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Test launch of silo-based Topol-M

On November 1, 2014, 9:20 MSK (6:20 UTC) the Strategic Rocket Forces performed a successful test launch of a silo-based Topol-M missile from the Plesetsk test site. The missile warhead successfully reached its target at the Kura site in Kamchatka.

Topol-M is technically considered a new missile, but the first missiles of this type were deployed in 1997, so most missiles are already close to their initially set service lives. The test was supposed to confirm that there are no problems with the rocket motors. If the service life of Topol-M was extended after the test, the Rocket Forces did not report it.

A close-up video of the launch:

[Rocket Forces] [November 1, 2014] []

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there is a video from the launch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzSr2HThmmI
I think the launch happened from Yuzhnaya site

[bernd reuter] [November 2, 2014] [#]

Bernd: Do you mean the one at 62.869919,41.780116?

[Pavel Podvig ] [November 2, 2014] [#]

Yes! Because both silos have circular lids (don't know which one they actually used).
The only other operational silo for SS-25/27 is over here 62.889450° 41.759721° but this one has a rectangular lid.
Cheers

[bernd reuter] [November 3, 2014] [#]

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't Russians a part of the Missile Technology Control Regime. Still, how can they fire those then?

[Abhishek Sharma] [November 3, 2014] [#]

Yes, Russia is a member of MTCR. And no, MTCR never prohibited missile tests.

[Pavel Podvig ] [November 4, 2014] [#]

> don't know which one they actually used

Obviously, east silo.

[anik ] [November 5, 2014] [#]

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