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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Russian submarines to test fire missiles in Pacific

Russian submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles will test fire their rockets in the Pacific Ocean between Sept. 15 and 20, a military official was quoted as saying on Friday.

"Some missile launches will be carried out in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea" and will hit targets on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia, said the unidentified official, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

A press officer for the governor of Kamchatka, a mountainous region often used for missile tests, told RIA Novosti that local authorities had been forewarned and would inform the local population in due course.

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