Russia to Acquire New Submarines, ICBMs

Russia plans to add two new submarines and seven Topol-M ICBMs to its strategic arsenal, First Deputy Defense Minister Col.-Gen. Alexander Belousov said Friday (see GSN, Jan. 6). The two planned submarines are set to be armed with the new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, he said (Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu, Jan. 30).

Meanwhile, Russia last year dismantled two Oscar-class nuclear submarines from its Northern Fleet with British financial assistance, the head of the facility where the work was conducted announced Friday (see GSN, Jan. 20; Interfax/BBC Monitoring, Jan. 29).

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