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Russian nuclear submarine test-fires missiles amid tension with the US

The series of missile launches comes less than two months before the New START US-Russian arms control treaty expires in early February. Moscow and Washington have discussed the possibility of its extension, but so far have failed to overcome their differences.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-12-12 16:15
in World News
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A Russian nuclear submarine has successfully test-fired four inter-continental ballistic missiles in a show of readiness of Moscow’s nuclear forces amid tension with the US.

The Russian defence ministry said the Vladimir Monomakh submarine of the Pacific Fleet launched four Bulava missiles in quick succession from an underwater position in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Their dummy warheads hit their designated targets on the Chiza shooting range in the Arkhangelsk region in north-western Russia, the ministry said.

The Vladimir Monomakh is one of the new Borei-class nuclear submarines that carry 16 Bulava missiles each and are intended to serve as the core of the naval component of the nation’s nuclear forces for decades to come.

Nuclear conflict

Another submarine of the same type performed a similar launch of four Bulava missiles in 2018 – a costly demonstration of the efficiency of the country’s nuclear deterrent mimicking the conditions of a major nuclear conflict.

Vladimir Monomakh submarine
The Vladimir Monomakh submarine can carry 16 Bulava missiles (Russian Defence Ministry Press Service/AP)

Saturday’s launch followed sweeping drills of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces on Wednesday.

As part of those drills, a Russian nuclear submarine performed a practice launch of an inter-continental ballistic missile from the Barents Sea, a ground-based ICBM was launched from the Plesetsk facility in north-western Russia, and Tu-160 and Tu-95 strategic bombers fired cruise missiles at test targets at an Arctic range.

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Russia has expanded its military drills in recent years amid tension with the West as relations have sunk to post-Cold War lows after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.

The series of missile launches comes less than two months before the New START US-Russian arms control treaty expires in early February. Moscow and Washington have discussed the possibility of its extension, but so far have failed to overcome their differences.

New START was signed in 2010 by then US president Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. It limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.

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