Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov says the country's land and sea ballistic missiles will carry the same type of new warhead.
The Russian information agency Novosti reports Ivanov made the statement at a government meeting Monday attended by President Vladimir Putin.
Ivanov said the new warhead was tested Saturday. A dummy warhead was launched from the Kapustin Yar site in southern Russia and came within a few hundred yards of a target 1,200 miles away at the Balkhash site in Kazakhstan.
Russia has five kinds of Topol-M ballistic missiles, the first of which are scheduled for deployment in silos later this year. The sea-based version is called Bulava and could be on Borey-class nuclear submarines as early as 2008, Novosti reported.
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