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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Project 667BDR submarine decommissioned

Delta III class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarineSubmarines of the Project 667BDR/Delta III class are fairly old - most of them began their service in the 1970s.

Nevertheless, the subs seem to be operational - two submarines conducted successful launches of their missiles in October 2009.

Still, the START numbers indicated that one of the subs has been in the decommissioning process for some time - it had some missiles unloaded.

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