Search This Blog

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Russia Announces New Sub-Fired Ballistic Missile

DELTA IV class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (Project 667BDRM )Russia's Makeyev Design Bureau has verified the first trial of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile intended to trump the payload-to-range capacities of comparable systems wielded by the world's other nuclear weapons states, Russia Today reported on Tuesday (see GSN, May 25).

The new "Liner" missile is a heavily modified variant of the RSM-54 Sineva formally delivered to the navy in 2007. Russia has equipped its Delta 4 submarines with 16 of the Sineva systems.

The new weapon had its initial trial launch in May. It is designed to deliver independently targeted nuclear warheads of varying yields, and it includes sophisticated features for breaching present and planned antimissile systems, Russia Today reported.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.