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27.09.05, 23:45
ssia today conducted the much anticipated first flight test of its new Bulava
SS-NX-30 intercontinental ballistic missile. The missile was successfully
launched from the Dmitry Donskoy Typhoon-class submarine of the Northern Fleet
from the White Sea, and it traveled to its designated target at the Kura
testing range on the Kamchatka peninsula.
The Bulava had undergone surface and underwater “pop-up” tests in
September 2004 to test the submarine release mechanism, but it did not involve
the firing of any missile engines.
The test comes a day after President Putin affirmed that Russia
continues to develop hypersonic maneuverable warheads for its new missile
systems which are capable of evading the sort of midcourse missile defenses
being deployed by the United States. The Bulava is the sea-based variant of
the Topol-M missile, said to carry such warheads.
Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo told Itar Tass that the Borey-class
nuclear submarines will be equipped with the Bulava missiles; two such
submarines are being constructed at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk in the
Arkhangelsk region. The first submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, will be
commissioned in 2006 and the second, the Alexander Nevsky, in 2007
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