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9K720 Iskander
Russian short-range ballistic missile
The 9K720 Iskander is a mobile short-range ballistic missile system produced and deployed by the Russian military. They travel at a terminal hypersonic speed of 2,100–2,600 metres per second and can reach an altitude of 50 kilometres as they range up to 500 kilometres. The missile systems (Искандер-М) were intended to replace by 2020 the supposedly-obsolete OTR-21 Tochka systems in the Russian military.
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