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Russian Submarine Test-Launches ICBM
From Thursday, December 11, 2003 issue.
The Russian ballistic missile submarine Dmitriy Donskoi has successfully test-launched a long-range ballistic missile, a Russian radio station reported today (see GSN, Dec. 2). The missile was fired off the northern coast of Russia to a test range on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Ekho Moskvy/BBC Monitoring, Dec. 11). According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Dmitriy Donskoi is a Typhoon-class submarine that is serving as a test bed for a new submarine-launched ballistic missile, the SS-N-27 Bulava, a version of the land-based SS-27, also known as the Topol-M (see GSN, Aug. 11; NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2003).
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