Abstract: To investigate the tensile properties of silicone rubber at high strain rate, high-rate uniaxial tension test was carried out at a strain rate of 350 s<sup<-1</sup< using rotating-disk indirect bar-bar tensile impact apparatus. Due to low modulus and low strength of silicone rubber, appropriate mechanical connection method between the tensile specimen and the incident/transmitted bars of the tensile impact apparatus was adopted and the shape and size of the tensile specimen were determined. By using the automated grid method for strain measurement, uniaxial tension tests were performed under quasi-static (0.001 s<sup<-1</sup<) and medium strain-rate (1 s<sup<-1</sup<) loading conditions. Experimental stress-strain results indicate that the tension behavior of silicone rubber exhibits apparent hyper-elastic and rate-dependent characteristics.The values of tensile modulus increase with the increase of strain rate.