The K-407 Novomoskovsk, class submarine Delta-IV in service with the Northern Fleet, he successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile Sineva from the Barents Sea. The SS-N-23 hit the designated target in the Kura range on the Kamchatka Peninsula. This is what the Russian General Staff communicates.
"The launch was carried out from a submerged position. The missile warhead hit the target in northeastern Russia."
Il Sineva is considered one of the best Submarine-launched ballistic missile of the entire Russian inventory with Mirv header, designed to equip all Delta. Moscow has four in service Delta III and you are Delta IV.
I Dolphin, to date, they represent the backbone of Russian deterrence. The entire class was converted to be equipped with the latest version of the R-29RMU missiles Sineva, the U2 Layner, operational since the end of the 2014.
Unlike Bulava, the fire tests of the R-29RMU2 Layner made by the K-84 Ekaterinburg and from the K-114 Tula, proved to be immediately successful. Thanks to the new weapon system, able to carry up to twelve Mirv / Marv heads with variable yield, the operational life of the Dolphin it has been extended to the 2030, the year in which the gradual radiation from the service will begin.
In the latest 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed two more ballistic missile launches. The first missile was launched from the K-433 submarine Georgy Pobedonosets from the sea of Okhotsk. The class unit Kalmar Project 667BDR is in service with the Pacific Fleet from the 2010. The Sineva launched hit the polygon of Chizha, in the north of Russia. The second missile, Topol-M (SS- 27 Sickle-B), was launched from the Plesetsk spaceport to the polygon on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The solid-propellant three-stage missile continues to demonstrate high precision and overall good performance, hitting the designated target on the firing range in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.
The three-stage missile Topol a solid propellant with autonomous inertial type guide, it would be immune to the American Anti-missile Shield (ABM), thanks to its abilities to make sharp turns, release false targets, in addition to complete shielding against any type of Emp or laser attack. The only possibility to bring it down would be in the boost phase (Boost Phase): task that would be the responsibility of interceptors based in Poland.
Il Topol, with its 10 thousand km range, it could hit any part of the United States with impunity. Its probability of circular error is estimated in 350 meters: it carries a single warhead with a maximum yield of 550 kilotons. The Topol was designed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, to be easily converted for the maximum transport of six Mirv warheads.
Unlike its US counterpart, the Topol it can be launched either from mobile ramps or from silos.
(photo: MoD Russian Federation)
