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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Russia to Launch Third and Final Bulava SLBM Last Week of November: Defense Source

RFS Alexander NevskyThe third and final launch this year of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) will take place in the final week of November from the Alexander Nevsky nuclear submarine, a high-ranking official from the Russian military-industrial complex announced Monday.

“There will be two more launches of the Bulava [submarine-launch ballistic] missile by the end of the year. One launch will be held in the last week of October from the Yuri Dolgoruky nuclear submarine, and the last one will be in the end of November from the Alexander Nevsky,” the official said.

He said the submarines would launch the missiles from the White Sea with a trajectory toward the Kura Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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