Colonel General Sergey Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, boasted about the capabilities of Moscow's missile power saying Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) can reach any place in the world.
According to news agency TASS, he said the ICBMs are designed specifically to target any territory, in any corner of the planet.
In an interview dedicated to the Strategic Missile Forces Day on December 17 to the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, General Karakayev said, "In terms of range, there is no place our missiles cannot reach."
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"Such maximum-range launches have been conducted in modern Russia to evaluate the correspondence of their characteristics to the pre-established requirements. They are carried out in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. According to the tactical and technical objectives of the Russian defense ministry, this is a necessary stage of the new intercontinental ballistic missiles' testing," he was quoted as saying.
Further, he announced that the missile launches at maximum range are planned by the forces as part of state flight tests of advanced missile systems.
Noting that the missile systems of the mobile group of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces have been completely updated, he said, “The planned rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces' military compounds and units has led to an 88 per cent share of modern missile weapons and provided the Strategic Missile Forces grouping with new capabilities to perform tasks on nuclear deterrence.”
This figure has already reached 100 per cent in the mobile group of the Strategic Missile Forces, he added.
