In this image provided by the Missile Defense Agency a Standard Missile 3 is fired from the USS Lake Erie Thursday May 10, 2012 in the mid Pacific Ocean. - File Photo by AP.
MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday staged the first successful test-launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of breaching defence systems now being developed by Nato, a military spokesman said.
“The dummy warhead reached its target area at the Kura test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The set goals of the launch were reached,” Interfax quoted Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces spokesman Vadim Koval as saying.
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