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Russia Tests SS-N-23 SLBM

October 8, 2005 :: Itar-Tass :: News

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it tested on early Saturday morning another submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missile, identified by Itar Tass as a RSM-54 “Volna” missile. The RSM-54 designation refers to what is known as SS-N-23 in Western classification. R-29RM is another designation for the same missile.
        The test is the third within eleven days. The missile was fired from the submerged Borisoglebsk submarine in the Barents Sea, which is in the Arctic Ocean near Norway and Northern Russia. The missile’s warhead traveled eastward some 6,000 miles to the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Defense Ministry said that the test “is the sixth sea-based ICBM launch this year,” and added that another land-based silo test launch will take place later this month from the Baikonur cosmodrome.  (Article)

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