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Russia tests sea-borne nuclear missile

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russia has test fired a new submarine-launched missile that will be the core weapon of the Russian naval nuclear forces in the coming decade.

The Russian strategic nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy successfully launched the new solid-fuel Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea on Wednesday morning.

The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Navy's Captain Igor Dygalo said on television.

"This was the first underwater launch of a Bulava missile and the second launch conducted as part of a series of tests of the missile," he said.

The sea-borne strategic missile system Bulava can carry at least 10 independently targetable nuclear warheads which can hit targets 8,000 km away.

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