Self -fragmentation

One of the two -launched in the White Sea from the Yuri Dolgoruky missile Bulava exploded in the air, reports Interfax with reference to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The second missile struck the target in Kamchatka.

"Today, an underwater cruiser strategic purpose from the White Sea was an experimental shooting of two intercontinental ballistic missiles" Bulav "at the Kura landfill on the Kamchatka Polugon. Fleeting was executed from the underwater position, - the agency quotes the military department quoted." Both missiles were standardly left the submarine mines on the set. The trajectories.

The intercontinental ballistic rocket of the R-30 Bulava as part of the D-30 missile system should be the main weapons of missile underwater cruisers of the Strategic Project 955 "Borea". To date, 26 test launches have been produced. 19 of them are recognized as successful and partially successful. Seven launches ended in failure due to technical failures.

ADL "Yuri Dolgoruky" - the head submarine in the project "Borea". It was laid on Sevmash in 1996, launched in April 2007. Adopted in the Navy on January 10, 2014 along with the Bulava missile system. It is included in the 31st division of the underwater forces of the Northern Fleet in Gadzhievo.

Submarines of the same class "Alexander Nevsky" and "Vladimir Monomakh" are part of the Pacific Fleet. Until 2020, the Russian Navy should receive eight strategic missile carriers of projects 955 and 955A.