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RUSSIA SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES LARGE LONG-RANGE MISSILE
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 28, 2011 - 12:30 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia successfully test-fired a large long-range
missile Friday, October 28, whose future as a mainstay of its nuclear
arsenal has been clouded by past failures, Reuters reports.
The military said the 12-meter (40-foot) long, multiple-warhead Bulava
missile - Russian for 'Mace' - was fired from the atomic-powered
submarine Yuri Dolgoruky in the White Sea in northwestern Russia.
Its warheads hit the target area on the Kamchatka peninsula some
6,000 km (3,700 miles) to the east, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor
Konashenkov said.
"The flight went according to plan and the warheads reached the
testing ground at the appropriate time," he said on state-run Rossiya
24 television.
It was the third successful test launch this year of the Bulava,
which failed in seven of its previous 14 tests, raising doubts about
plans to use it as the cornerstone of Russia's nuclear deterrent for
the next three decades.
One Bulava can hold six to 10 nuclear warheads, enough to deliver an
impact up to 100 times the power of the atomic blast that devastated
Hiroshima in 1945. Russia hopes to put the missile into service by
next year.
Russia agreed to new limits on long-range nuclear arms in the 2009
New START treaty with the United States, but has emphasized they will
remain a crucial element of its defenses and signaled further cuts
will be tough to achieve.
From: Baghdasarian
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 28, 2011 - 12:30 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russia successfully test-fired a large long-range
missile Friday, October 28, whose future as a mainstay of its nuclear
arsenal has been clouded by past failures, Reuters reports.
The military said the 12-meter (40-foot) long, multiple-warhead Bulava
missile - Russian for 'Mace' - was fired from the atomic-powered
submarine Yuri Dolgoruky in the White Sea in northwestern Russia.
Its warheads hit the target area on the Kamchatka peninsula some
6,000 km (3,700 miles) to the east, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor
Konashenkov said.
"The flight went according to plan and the warheads reached the
testing ground at the appropriate time," he said on state-run Rossiya
24 television.
It was the third successful test launch this year of the Bulava,
which failed in seven of its previous 14 tests, raising doubts about
plans to use it as the cornerstone of Russia's nuclear deterrent for
the next three decades.
One Bulava can hold six to 10 nuclear warheads, enough to deliver an
impact up to 100 times the power of the atomic blast that devastated
Hiroshima in 1945. Russia hopes to put the missile into service by
next year.
Russia agreed to new limits on long-range nuclear arms in the 2009
New START treaty with the United States, but has emphasized they will
remain a crucial element of its defenses and signaled further cuts
will be tough to achieve.
From: Baghdasarian