The Defense Ministry
said that rockets were fired in the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
MOSCOW, August 24.
/TASS/. Russian nuclear-powered submarines of the 667BDRM Tula project and 955
Yuri Dolgoruky project fired ballistic missiles at the Kura range in Kamchatka
and Chizha range in the Arkhangelsk region as part of combat training, the
Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
"On August 24,
in accordance with the combat training plan, the Sineva sea-based ballistic
missile and the Bulava missile were successfully launched from the Tula and
Yuri Dolgoruky strategic submarines," the ministry said.
The ministry said
that rockets were fired in the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
"The large-sized
mock-ups of missile warheads completed the full cycle of the flight program and
successfully hit training targets at the Chizha range in the Arkhangelsk region
and the Kura range on the Kamchatka Peninsula," the ministry said.
The ministry noted
that these firing confirmed the technical properties of ballistic missiles, as
well as the performance of all missile systems on submarines.
Source: ITAR-TASS
24-08-2019
