The missile has hit all the targets at the
practice range in Kamchatka.
MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/. The Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 955
underwater missile cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky has successfully test-fired a Bulava
missile from the Barents Sea and hit all the designated targets at the Kura
practice range in Kamchatka, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
"The Project 955 Borey-class underwater missile cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky has made a successful launch of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from the designated area of the Barents Sea towards the Kura practice range in Kamchatka. The launch was made from the submerged position in compliance with a combat training plan," the Defense Ministry said.
"The Project 955 Borey-class underwater missile cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky has made a successful launch of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from the designated area of the Barents Sea towards the Kura practice range in Kamchatka. The launch was made from the submerged position in compliance with a combat training plan," the Defense Ministry said.
"The
parameters of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile’s flight trajectory
were practiced in the normal regime. According to the confirmed data of the
registering equipment, the warheads of the intercontinental ballistic missile
performed a full cycle of the flight and successfully hit the designated
targets at the practice range," the Defense Ministry said.
The
previous launch of a Bulava missile was carried out on September 27 when the
submarine Yuri Dolgoruky performed an experimental salvo launch of two ICBMs
from the White Sea towards the Kura practice range in the Russian Far East.
The
warheads of the first missile performed a full cycle of the flight program and
successfully hit the designated targets at the practice range. The second
missile self-liquidated after performing the first stage of the flight program.
The submarine Yuri Dolgoruky is the Project 955 Borey-class lead vessel. The underwater cruiser is armed with a set of Bulava sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles and also with torpedoes.
The sub can be armed with cruise missiles. It has a full displacement of
24,000 tonnes, is about 160 meters long and 13 meters wide.
The R-30
Bulava is a solid-propellant ballistic missile developed specially for Project
955 submarines. It can deliver 10 warheads of 150 kilotonnes each to a distance
of 10,000 kilometers.
Source: ITAR-TASS 27-06-2017
