Bunker destroyed from 200 km – Iskander-M launch test
April 18, 2016
The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video of the Iskander-M tactical missile launcher test-firing a cruise rocket. The footage was shot during an exercise at the Kapustin Yar rocket test range in the Astrakhan region on Friday last week, the ministry said in a statement. “The site of a simulated underground enemy command point, located some 200km from the launch position, was turned into a smoking hole” the ministry said, describing the result of the strike shown on the video.
Iskander-M is a variant of the Russian tactical missile system designated SS-26 Stone by NATO. It can fire 2 types of missiles, the quasi-ballistic 9M723 and the cruise 9M728. Both types can maneuver quickly on their flight path to make interception by enemy anti-missile weapons more challenging.