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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Defense Nuclear warheads ready for Bulava missile as test program picks up steam


Nuclear warheads have been completed for Russia's new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, its designer Yury Solomonov said on Tuesday in an interview with Russia's Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defense) journal to be published later in December.

"The nuclear payload will have been completed by the time the missiles are installed in the carrier [submarine]," Solomonov said.

Four Bulava test launches will be carried out in the second half of December from the Borei-class nuclear-powered missile submarine Yury Dolgoruky, he said.

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