Moscow (PTI): Russia on Thursday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that beats anti- ballistic missile (ABM) systems in hitting high-security facilities, media reports said.

The Topol (RS-12M) ICBM, launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, is equipped with features designed to defeat ABM systems. It flew 6,000 kilometres and succesfully hit a target on the Kura testing ground, in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East, the Interfax news agency said.

"The experimental combat part of the missile has hit the target on the testing ground on the Kamchatka peninsula with high precision, demonstrating an ability to effectively hit high-security facilities," Alexander Vovk, the head of the RVSN information service, was quoted as saying by Interfax.

"Experience shows the most economical and quickly achievable countermeasures against the development of a missile-defence system are so-called asymmetrical measures," he said, adding that the measures include the missile being less detectable and its path less predictable, foiling missile-detection systems.