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Russian submarine test-fires ballistic missile
MOSCOW - A Russian submarine in the Barents Sea successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile on Tuesday, hitting a target on the Kamchatka peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coast minutes later, the Ministry of Defence said. ‘The launch was carried out from the submarine platform in line with military training. The rocket warhead arrived down range at the designated time,’ the ministry said in a statement.

The RSM-54, or Sineva, is a hybrid ballistic missile that in its final stages becomes a modified cruise missile. In this guise, the warhead cannot be targeted by anti-missile systems that rely on a ballistic trajectory for their calculations.
Until we upgrade the software on the ABM system.
Tuesday’s launch is the second such test-firing of the Sineva in less than a week. The submarine-based test missile was fired from the Tula, one of seven Russian Dolphin-class vessels capable of carrying 16 intercontinental rockets and torpedoes, according to data published on the Russian Defence Ministry web site.

Officials also announced the successful test-firing of a land-launched RS-24 missile with multiple warheads from the Plesetsk range in northern Russia. A spokesman for Russian’s Strategic Missile forces said the missile, first tested in May of this year, had hit its target in Kamchatka.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-12-26
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