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Friday, October 03, 2008

Russia to build eight nuclear submarines


Russian ICBM Bulava (SS-NX-30) Launch. 18 Sep 2008

Senior military officials said that the new ships will be equipped with the country's problem-plagued submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Bulava-30.

Russia is struggling to revamp its dilapidated military structure in order to give substance to an increasingly assertive foreign policy that has seen warships and bombers deployed to the far corners of the world for the first time since the Cold War.

Last week, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, announced a dramatic rearmament programme that would see the construction of new missile defence system and the mass production of warships and multi-purpose submarines.

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