Russia Conducts Successful SLBM Test

Russia today successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, according to the Russian Defense Ministry (see GSN, April 21). The SS-N-23 missile was launched from the Delta IV-class Yekaterinburg in the Barents Sea to the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 7,000 kilometers away (see GSN, Dec. 29, 2003; Associated Press, June 29).

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