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<\/div>\nRussia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile has been loaded into a silo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have renewed his nuclear power against the West by readying a strategic missile that can strike the US or anywhere in Europe, according to Newsweek.<\/em><\/p>\n According to the news outlet<\/a>, which cited the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, a video of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on a silo launcher was released by Russia’s defence ministry and widely reported by the country’s media as an apparent warning to the West.<\/p>\n According to the newspaper, the missile is “12 times more powerful than the American bomb that destroyed Hiroshima,” referring to the atomic weapon dropped on the Japanese city on August 6, 1945.<\/p>\n The report in the mass circulation paper outlined some of the missile’s specifications, including a launch weight of 46,000 tonnes, an operational range of up to 12,000 kilometres (7,456 miles) that can strike the United States or anywhere in Europe, and a payload of up to 500 kilotons.<\/p>\n “In the run-up to Strategic Missile Force Day, the Kozelsk missile formation carried out the loading of a Yars ICBM into the silo launcher,” Russian News Agency TASS<\/a><\/em>quoted the defence ministry as saying.<\/p>\n The complex process took a few hours and was carried out with the help of a special transporter-loader.<\/p>\n “This operation is important because it will allow yet another ICBM to enter combat duty as scheduled,” Commander of the Kozelsk missile formation Alexey Sokolov said.<\/p>\n The Yars missile system is a modified version of the Topol-M missile system. Russia began deploying Yars intercontinental ballistic missile systems in 2009, when the Yars launcher was accepted for experimental combat duty in the Strategic Missile Force.<\/p>\n