Russisan Navy doing submarine balistic missile tests in the Pacific

Folks, The Russians are really amping up the military activity. First
the return of the Bears in the air. Then the fight in Georgia. A trip to
South America this Fall. Threats to Poland. And now.........


Russian submarines to test launch ballistic missiles in Pacific
16:14 | 12/ 09/ 2008


PETROPAVLOVSK KAMCHATSKY, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Strategic
submarines from the Russian Pacific Fleet will conduct test launches of
ballistic missiles at the Kura test site in Kamchatka on September
15-20, a fleet source said on Friday.

"The launches will be conducted from the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering
Sea," he said.

The source did not specify the class of the submarines or the type of
missiles to be launched. He said however the Pacific Fleet had informed
authorities in the Kamchatka Territory that the fleet would conduct on
September 15-20 test launches of ballistic missiles whose trajectory
would pass over the region.

According to open sources, Russia's Pacific Fleet has 4-5 active
Delta-class strategic missile submarines.

One of the submarines, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Delta III class
SSBN, conducted a successful test firing of a ballistic missile from the
Pacific Ocean at a target in the Arctic in August 2007.

fings x'ed they don't blow themselves up again, this time......
i wouldn't want to be a sailor on their sub's...




On Sep 12, 2:30*pm, Tiger wrote:
Folks, The Russians are really amping up the military activity. First
the return of the Bears in the air. Then the fight in Georgia. A trip to
* South America this Fall. Threats to Poland. And now.........

Russian submarines to test launch ballistic missiles in Pacific
16:14 | 12/ 09/ 2008

PETROPAVLOVSK KAMCHATSKY, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Strategic
submarines from the Russian Pacific Fleet will conduct test launches of
ballistic missiles at the Kura test site in Kamchatka on September
15-20, a fleet source said on Friday.

"The launches will be conducted from the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering
Sea," he said.

The source did not specify the class of the submarines or the type of
missiles to be launched. He said however the Pacific Fleet had informed
authorities in the Kamchatka Territory that the fleet would conduct on
September 15-20 test launches of ballistic missiles whose trajectory
would pass over the region.

According to open sources, Russia's Pacific Fleet has 4-5 active
Delta-class strategic missile submarines.

One of the submarines, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Delta III class
SSBN, conducted a successful test firing of a ballistic missile from the
Pacific Ocean at a target in the Arctic in August 2007.

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fings x'ed they don't blow themselves up again, this time......
i wouldn't want to be a sailor on their sub's...



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it will be a brave capt who pushes the launch button