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>“Now the world is puzzled - what is this unprecedented miracle?”

>The Russian defence ministry refused to name the secret rocket that was fired from a mobile missile launcher.

>But it has boasted the success of the testing, adding that "objectives were completed in full" - without any further details.

>The former colonel rules out the possibility that the new rocket is one of the several known Putin missiles under development, such as the Avangard and Burevestnik.

>Instead, he concludes it could be a new version of the Yars ICBM - with a stunning technological advance.

>ICBMs are designed to destroy enemy targets at long distances with a range of over 3,400 miles.

>Yars missiles - known to Nato forces as SS-29s - can hit speeds of Mach 25, or nearly 20,000mph.

>They can carry nuclear warheads up to a strength of 500 kilotons.

>Russia is estimated to have more than 150 Yars missiles in service - and they have nearly 6,000 nuclear warheads.

>“In all likelihood, it will be a new version of the Yars from the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering,” Baranets said.

>He believes the missile's weird flying pattern could be attributed to a new breakthrough technology.

>He continued: “The world has never seen such launches with a missile ‘waltzing’ in the sky.

>“An overseas missile warning system would be out of its mind if it tried to understand the logic of the flight of such a missile and calculate its trajectory.

>“In addition, this crazy trajectory was in some parts on a straight line, which makes it even more difficult to intercept the missile.”

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