Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sea trials of Russia's Yury Dolgoruky submarine postponed

Sea trials of Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine have been postponed until spring 2009, a high-ranking Navy source said on Tuesday.

The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in northern Russia and was taken out of dry dock in April 2007.

It will be equipped with sea-based Bulava ballistic missiles upgraded from Topol-M (SS-27) missiles.

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