ABC News Online: Russian nuclear submarine test fires intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time
Russia's most advanced nuclear-powered submarine has test-launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time and hit a target thousands of kilometres away, the Defence Ministry says.
The test was carried out on Wednesday (local time) from the Knyaz Vladimir submarine, a Borei 955A-class vessel submerged in the White Sea near Russia's Finnish border.
Carrying a fake payload, the missile hit a test site in Russia's far-east region of Kamchatka near the Bering Sea, according to the ministry.
The submarine is the first upgraded 955A model to be produced in the Borei class of Russian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.
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