Russia launched three intercontinental missiles

Three combat training launches of intercontinental missiles made in the first half of Thursday. The first RSM-50 warhead flew from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk from the St. George the Victorious submarine, the second PC-12 Topol from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The third is the Sineva from the submarine cruiser Bryansk in the Barents Sea. Friday must also be running Bulava.

Successful launches of ballistic missiles produced on Thursday by Russian troops.

"Pacific Nuclear Strategic Submarine fleet Project 667BDR Kalmar K-433 Saint George the Victorious launched a combat training launch of the R-29R intercontinental ballistic missile (RSM-50) from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk at the Chizh training ground (Cape Kanin Nos in the Arkhangelsk Region), ”Interfax reported. "Source at the General Staff of the Navy. He added that “the launch of the RSM-50 rocket was carried out as part of the training of strategic nuclear forces from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk on the Chizh range from the submarine K-433“ St. George the Victorious ”from underwater position.”

The second combat training launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-12M Topol, mobile based, was carried out from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, spokesman for the department of the press service and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Strategic Missile Forces Colonel Vadim Koval told Interfax.

“The launched rocket was manufactured in 1987 and until August 2007 was on combat duty at the Teikov missile compound (Ivanovo region), and then stored on one of the Strategic Missile Forces arsenals,” the representative of the defense department specified.

“The purpose of this launch, which was carried out by joint combat crews of the Strategic Missile Forces and the Space Forces, was to confirm the stability of the main flight performance of the missile during the extended service life,” Koval explained.

As a result, Topol successfully hit a conventional target at the Kamchatka test site: “A quick analysis of data received from the measuring means of the Kura test site confirmed that the missile training combat unit struck a conventional target with a given accuracy on the Kamchatka Peninsula,” Service and Information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for Space Forces Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin.

According to him, the launch was carried out by a joint combat crew of the Space Forces and the Strategic Missile Forces and was carried out in the normal mode.

Colonel Vadim Koval summed up that during the training and launch, all tasks to extend the service life of this type of missile were successfully completed: “With this launch, the life of the Topol group of ICBMs extended to 12 years,” he said, stressing that “the extension of the service life of a group of Topol missile systems at minimum financial costs allows for the systematic replacement of decommissioned missiles with new-generation missiles without peak loads on the military budget.”

# {weapon} Note that on Thursday and Friday - as part of the training of the strategic nuclear forces of Russia - there were also scheduled launches of the intercontinental ballistic missiles "Sinevy" and "Bulava", respectively.

“With strategic nuclear submarines, it is planned to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles“ Sineva ”from the waters of the Pacific and Arctic oceans. In parallel with this, a launch of a strategic ground-based missile system is scheduled, ”Interfax quoted the source in the missile industry on Wednesday. He noted that, in accordance with the current agreement, the United States was promptly notified of planned launches. And the alleged drop sites for warhead imitators are closed.

This training start has several goals: the training will involve various components of offensive and defensive strategic weapons. It was also planned to check the readiness of the space and ground levels of missile attack and missile defense warning systems.

"Sineva" as of 14.50 successfully launched from the waters of the Barents Sea from the strategic submarine-launched missile cruiser "Bryansk" from a submerged position, ITAR-TASS reports. At the appointed time, the missile warheads arrived in a given area at the Kura test site in Kamchatka.

As for the Bulava, on October 7, after a successful launch of the rocket 13, it became known that the Bulava sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile could be put into service in the middle of the 2011 year. The final decision will depend on the results of two more test runs.

"The launch of the 955" Borey "project on nuclear submarines will begin rocketing." The head submarine of this project, “Alexander Nevsky,” is already ready to receive a new missile system, ”the representative of the Russian Navy assured.

The sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile Р30 3М30 The Bulava-30 can carry up to 10 nuclear individual-guidance units with a power up to 150 kilotons each. The range of the ICBM - 8 thousand kilometers.

The submarine strategic cruisers of the 955 (Borey) project, which are now being built at Sevmash, should be launched into service with the missile: “Yuri Dolgoruky”, “Alexander Nevsky”, “Vladimir Monomakh”.