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The interlocutor of the agency also said that the first serial missile carrier of Project 955A will not be included in the fleet for the Day of the Russian Navy, which will be celebrated on July 25 in 2021.
Strategic nuclear-powered missile submarine "Knyaz Oleg"
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MOSCOW, May 31. / TASS /. The Project 955A (Borey-A) strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser Knyaz Oleg began its first test run to sea on May 30. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.
"Prince Oleg" began the first test trip to the White Sea on May 30 in the evening, "he said. Earlier it was expected that this event would take place in early June, but a change in plans was not ruled out.
The press service of the Sevmash Production Association (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), where the submarines of this project are built, did not comment on the source's information.
According to previous plans, it was assumed that the first serial missile carrier of the project 955A "Prince Oleg" was to become part of the fleet for the Day of the Russian Navy, which this year will be celebrated on July 25.
According to a TASS source, this event will not happen within the specified timeframe, because during the tests of the submarine, an intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava is to be launched from the Barents Sea from a submerged position at a target at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka.
Currently, the Russian Navy has four Project 955 / 955A missile carriers. In addition to "Prince Oleg", three more boats of project 955A are at "Sevmash" in different stages of construction. Each of the boats of projects 955 / 955A carries 16 Bulava ICBMs. Earlier, in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, said that the Russian Navy would receive a strategic missile submarine of the Borei-A project "Prince Oleg" by the end of 2021.
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