Russia successfully launches new ballistic missile
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11438756
MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) – The strategic submarine Dmitry Donskoy incorporated in Russia’s Northern Fleet successfully launched a latest ballistic missile Bulava from the White Sea on Wednesday morning, a Russian Defense Ministry source told Interfax.
“It was an underwater launch,” the source said.
Russian Navy commander’s aide Cap. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo later told Interfax that the missile’s reentry vehicle hit a target at the Kura range on the Kamchatka Peninsula at a calculated time.
“This was the first underwater launch of a Bulava missile and the second launch conducted as part of the series of the missile’s tests,” he said.
Russian Navy Deputy Commander Adm. Mikhail Zakharenko, who leads an ad hoc state commission for the Bulava trials is present onboard the Dmitry Donskoy now, Dygalo said.
Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Masorin congratulated the vessel’s commander, Cap. 1st Rank Arkady Romanov, and the crew on the successful launch.
The Dmitry Donskoy carried out the first test surface launch of a Bulava missile from a point in the White Sea on September 27, 2005.
The seaborne strategic missile system Bulava can carry at least ten independently targetable nuclear warheads. Its effective radius is at least 8,000 kilometers.
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