Russia Fails Yars Nuclear Missile Test
17- 19.05.2025, 11:07
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The launch area was as atypical as possible.
Russia failed in a "combat training" launch of the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile. This was reported by Defense Express on Monday, May 19.
The publication recalls that yesterday the Defense Ministry's GSD reported that the Russians planned to launch the Yars by the 433 regiment of the 42nd division of the 31st Army of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.
"The launch area was as atypical as possible - in the Sverdlovsk region, near the settlement of Svobodny..... It is only 25 kilometers from Nizhny Tagil. Therefore, any launch would have been recorded by local residents with a high degree of probability," the report says.
Bearing in mind that the main Russian testing ground where intercontinental missiles are aimed is Kura in Kamchatka, the flight of this missile should have been observed on a large territory of Siberia and the Far East from Khanty-Mansiysk to Magadan. But not a single video of its flight has been published.
The reasons why exactly the Russians did not carry out the launch are currently unknown. But in 2023, Russia failed twice in a row to routinely execute RS-24 Yars launches that went off course.
"After all, any missile undergoes a pre-flight check, and the Kremlin is hardly interested in showing the inability of its nuclear deterrent forces before the talks between Putin and Trump," the journalists write.
They also do not rule out an abnormal situation in the first stage of the flight immediately after the launch. Despite the fact that the Yars is a deep modernization of the Topol, there is always a risk of failure.
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