The nuclear submarine, K-44 Ryazan, part of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, was meant to launch two R-29R ballistic missiles from the Sea of Okhotsk on Oct. 17, but fired only one successfully with the other remaining in its tube onboard the submarine, the Vedomosti daily reported earlier on Monday.
The recently rebuilt #SSBN #DeltaClass K-44 Ryazan has misfired 1 out of 2 R-29R SLBMs during Thunder 2019@CovertShores @Capt_Navy @ElmiraMusazadeh @CovertCabalhttps://t.co/x6vv4RWbXg pic.twitter.com/MECCv3HcE9
— Eric Moreno (@KingNeptune767) October 21, 2019
The incident occurred on the same day as Putin oversaw the drills from a command center at the Defence Ministry in Moscow.
The aborted drill was part of wider war games for Russia’s armed forces, known as ‘Thunder 2019,’ which were designed to test the readiness of the country’s strategic forces for a nuclear conflict. (end of excerpt)
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