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Russia’s Submarine Successfully Fired IBM
K-114 Tula nuclear submarine has successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, RIA Novosti reported.
The warhead of the missile hit the target in Kura training ground of Kamchatka, people in the Navy’s news service specified. The missile was fired from submerged condition.
K-114 Tula submarine was constructed under the Project 667BDRM. It was rebuilt and upgraded in Severodvinsk a few years ago. The missile-carrying submarines of this type are armed with sixteen RSM-54 missiles of D-9RM system. These submarines that are 167-meter long and 12-meter wide have submerged displacement of 18,200 tons and are capable of going down to the depth of 400 meters. The crew has 135 members.
The recent launch from K-114 Tula submarine was the fourth launch carried out by Russia’s Navy in 2007 and this year's second launch of RSM-54 missiles. Russia’s Navy also fired a RSM-50 and a RSM-56 Bulava in addition to two RSM-54s.
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