The Russian military successfully test-fired two ballistic missiles Tuesday, firing one from a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean and another from the northwestern Plesetsk cosmodrome, officials said. The RS-12M Topol missile fired from the space launching area in Plesetsk hit a designated target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, about 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) east of Moscow, Russia's Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement released to the media. In another test launch Tuesday, the St. George nuclear submarine launched a ballistic missile from under water in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far East. The missile hit a set target in northern Russia, the navy said in a statement. The St. George is a Delta-III-class submarine, which is equipped to carry 16 R-29R nuclear-tipped missiles.
