- MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) -- The
test launch of the Bulava ballistic missile was successful, the Russian
defense minister said Wednesday.
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- "The launch has been conducted successfully,"
Sergei Ivanov said in a report to the Russian President. "The separation
of all stages, combat and simulation blocks occurred according to pre-set
parameters."
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- It was earlier reported that the missile was launched
Wednesday from the submerged Dmitry Donskoy, a Typhoon-class ballistic
missile submarine, and successfully hit its dummy target at the Kura test
site on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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- "What is important is that the submarine was moving
(underwater), it was not stationary," the minister said.
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- Ivanov also said the tests of the Bulava missile would
continue in 2006.
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- "We are fairly certain that the [Bulava] missile
system, and a new submarine to be equipped with it, will be deployed by
our navy in 2008," he said.
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- Russia's Borey-class nuclear submarines will be equipped
with Bulava missiles. Two submarines are being built at the Sevmash plant
in Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk Region, in north European Russia.
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