At the INF briefing today, Russia showed a table of missile tests at Kapustin Yar. The table (photo taken by @Moskwitsch) covers only the period from 2008 to 2014 and does not include any tests of naval missiles, but it is interesting anyway. Here is the data:
| Branch of Armed Forces | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Rocket Troops and Artillery | 10 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 7 | Air and Space Forces and Air Defense | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | Strategic Rocket Forces | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | Total | 16 | 9 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 27 | 15 |
The issue of why the table doesn't include naval missiles (like Kalibr SLCM) is one of the most interesting questions raised by the briefing (at least in my view). It appears that there is no "naval" division at Kapustin Yar. But Kalibr must have been tested somewhere. It's probably not Nenoksa - that is an NPOmash test site and I am told that tests to more than 220 km from there are very rare.
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