From: Adam 

Adam wrote:
> Sucessfull this time.
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>
> http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=18800
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> "The navy successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic
> missile from a nuclear-powered submarine near the North Pole, Defense
> Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.The nuclear submarine K-84 launched
> the missile Saturday, and all three test warheads hit their target, a
> testing range in the Archangelsk region on the Barents Sea, Ivanov said."
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>
> SLBM testing (under ice???)....MIRV testing......SSBN testing.....slowly
> slowly the Russian navy gets back up.
>
>
> Adam
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200609110940.htm

""The launch was successful," he said, adding that it had
been challenging: "Aiming from the North Pole, where the concepts of
latitude and longitude are relative, makes this launch difficult."

Ivanov suggested it was the first time a test-launch from the area had been
conducted by the Russian military in 11 years.

He spoke days after an unsuccessful test of a new sea-based
intercontinental ballistic missile. An experimental Bulava missile launched
from a submerged nuclear submarine in the White Sea on Thursday veered off
its designated flight path and fell into the sea, according to the Defence
Ministry.

Following that failure, Ivanov urged quick action to prevent the failure
from derailing plans for commissioning a new class of submarines and said
sea-based nuclear missiles should remain an important component of Russia's
nuclear deterrent, Russian news agencies reported. "

Adam

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