Breaking through the sky, the missile flies over the horizon to find its target, leaving only clouds of dust at the Kapustin Yar training ground.
Tu-95ms long-range aircraft, which launched air-based hypersonic cruise missiles, were involved in the training. 
A MiG-31i aircraft also launched a Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
From the Kapustin Yar training ground, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus carried out a practical launch of a ballistic missile from an Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system.
From the Barents Sea waters, the frigate's crew launched a Tsirkon hypersonic missile at the Chizha training ground.
A nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine crew launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Sineva from an underwater position.
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka.
Russia’s nuclear triad will remain at the level of necessary sufficiency, Vladimir Putin said.
U.S. missile system to be deployed in Japan during drills amid China fears
TOKYO - The U.S. military will deploy its Typhon midrange missile launcher and HIMARS rocket system to southwestern Japan next month for joint exercises with the Self-Defense Forces, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday, in a move apparently aimed at deterring China.
The systems will be deployed to the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Kanoya Air Base in Kagoshima Prefecture during the Valiant Shield and Orient Shield joint exercises between June and September, the sources said.
Six nuclear-weapons states are either located in the Asia-Pacific or have nuclear forces deployed there. Several of these are modernising or growing their arsenals. This reflects broader modernisation trends worldwide, but runs counter to the 25-year trend of reductions since the end of the Cold War.
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Growing arsenals, qualitative developments, renewed arms-racing dynamics, expanding conventional counterstrike capabilities and the prominence of dual-capable systems all mean rising nuclear risks in the Asia-Pacific.
В рамках учений ядерных сил обеспечена доставка ядерных боеприпасов в полевые пункты хранения позиционного района ракетной бригады в Республике Беларусь.
Личным составом ракетного соединения Республики Беларусь выполняются учебно-боевые задачи получения специальных боеприпасов для оперативно-тактического ракетного комплекса «Искандер-М», снаряжения ими ракет-носителей и скрытного выдвижения в назначенный район для подготовки к проведению пусков.
Минобороны России
...DesJarlais called LRSO the “best performing” nuclear modernization program in the Air Force.
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Meink, for his part, indicated the increase in resources comes at a “sensitive period” in LRSO’s development as it transitions from the research and development phase to production.
Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile May 20 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
This routine launch, designated GT 256, was scheduled years ago, and is not in response to world events. It acts as a comprehensive operational test, designed to evaluate both the weapon system and the personnel who maintain it in a highly-controlled testing environment.