09.08.2012
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Photo: Sail of SSBN
Alexander Nevsky.
"The missile won't be launched by
Yury Dolgoruky this year, we're going to launch it by
Alexander Nevsky", Sukhorukov said.
That was his comment on reports of some media agencies that SSBN
Yury Dolgoruky would be commissioned only after launch of SLBM
Bulava, reports
RIA Novosti.
On Monday, an insider in Russian defense industry said that lead submarine
Yury Dolgoruky and missile system
Bulava would be put in Russian Navy service after one more test launch controlled by Maritime Nuclear Force Control System.
As for him, all previous launches under flight development tests were held 'in manual mode' when
Bulava was launched upon command directly given from the submarine.
Late in July, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief VADM Viktor Chirkov declared that submarine-based ballistic missile system
Bulava would be commissioned in the nearest future.
As was reported earlier, United Shipbuilding Corporation was about to deliver nuclear submarine
Yury Dolgoruky on the Russian Navy Day, July 29.
Fourth-generation Project 955
Borei submarines were designed by the
Rubin Central Design Bureau (St. Petersburg). Primary weapon of
Borei-class submarines is new missile system Bulava. Each submarine is capable to carry 16 solid-propellant ballistic missiles R-30
Bulava having flight range of over 10,000 km and being armed with independently-targetable reentry vehicles.
Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
Yury Dolgoruky was laid down at
Sevmash shipyard on Nov 2, 1996. Being about 170-meter long, 13.5-meter wide and displacing 24,000 tons, the sub will carry 16
Bulava ballistic missiles designed by the Moscow Thermotechnics Institute.
