2023-11-05 14:14:18
The launch was carried out from a fourth-generation nuclear submarine and is the first after the Russian government revoked its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY / AFP Missile has a range of 8,000 kilometers and a length of 12 meters, and can be equipped with ten nuclear warheads
A Russia announced this Sunday, the 5th, that it successfully carried out a launch test of a ballistic missile intercontinental vessel capable of carrying nuclear warheads, from a fourth generation nuclear submarine. The launch of the Bulava missile, the first in approximately a year, was carried out shortly after Russia revoked its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). “The new strategic nuclear submarine Emperor Alexander III successfully fired the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile” from the White Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The missile reached its target, located at a test range on the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia’s far east, “on time,” he added.
With a range of 8,000 kilometers and a length of 12 meters, the Bulava (SS-NX-30 in NATO classification) can be equipped with ten nuclear warheads. The Emperor Alexander III Borei-class submarine is equipped with 16 Bulava missiles, according to the Russian military. Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, senior Russian officials have threatened on several occasions to use nuclear weapons, although on others, Putin has shown caution in this regard. Moscow deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, its closest ally, in the summer of 2023.
*With information from the AFP agency
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