Why in News?
Russia test-fired the RS-24 Yars, a mobile solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
Key Details
- An ICBM is a very long-range ballistic missile designed to travel across continents.
- The RS-24 Yars uses a three-stage solid-fuel engine and can be deployed from both road-mobile launchers and silos.
- It carries MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles), allowing separate warheads to be directed at different targets.
- Training warheads travelled more than 6,700 km to the Kura test range in Kamchatka.
Exam Connect
- RS-24 Yars → Russian solid-fuel ICBM
- MIRV → multiple warheads that can be aimed at different targets