MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has observed live launches ofintercontinental ballistic missile systems that can carry thermo-nuclearwarheads during a military drill across the country’s arctic region.
The president visited the national defense control center in the capitalMoscow on Thursday to watch a video transmission of the launches of theintercontinental ballistic missile systems, known as RS-24, RSM-50 andSineva, according to the defense ministry.
The systems simultaneously employed more than 200 launchers.
The test launch came during a military drill that involved 12 thousandRussian troops, five nuclear submarines, 105 aircraft and 213 missilelaunchers in Russia’s west Arctic seaports.
The war game, dubbed the Grom-19 or Thunder-19, came to an end on Thursday.
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During the viewing, Putin was accompanied by his defense minister SergeiShoigu, who said the armed forces were simulating “tasks in an armedconflict and nuclear war.”
Shoigu said that the armed forces were deploying “highly accurate nuclearweapons and weapons based on new physical principles.”
He explained that cruise and ballistic missiles were fired from the BarentsSea and the Sea of Okhotsk by submarines of the northern and Pacific fleets.
