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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Yury Dolgoruky to Complete Sea Trial on Thursday

RFS Yuri DolgorukiRussia's latest ballistic missile submarine, the Borey class Yury Dolgoruky will complete an initial sea trial on June 7, its maker Sevmash shipyard said on Tuesday.

"The Yury Dolgoruky will complete an initial sea trial on June 7. If all testing goes successfully, the boat will be accepted into service in the near future," a Sevmash source told RIA Novosti, adding that no tests of the boat's future primary armament, the Bulava ICBM, are planned during the sea trial.

The Bulava will be test-fired again this year, but from another boat of this class, the Alexander Nevsky, and if the test is successful, the two systems will be accepted into the service this year.

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