Russia's New Strategic Submarine To Start Sea Trials By Yearend

From RIA Novosti:

SEVERODVINSK, November 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's first Borey class strategic nuclear submarine will start sea trials by the end of 2008, the Sevmash shipyard said on Thursday. (Russia launches new nuclear submarine - Image Gallery)

The fourth-generation Yury Dolgoruky was built at the Sevmash plant in northern Russia and was taken out of dry dock in April 2007. It will be equipped with Bulava ballistic missiles upgraded from Topol-M (SS-27) missiles.

"The [submarine's] reactor will be switched on by the end of November. Yury Dolgoruky will go to sea by yearend," Sevmash general director Nikolai Kalistratov said.

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