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Russian Navy May Sink By 2008: Admiral
Moscow (UPI) May 25, 2004 Russia's navy has lost its most powerful subs and the whole fleet may disappear by 2008, a disgraced admiral said according to MosNews.com Tuesday. All of Russia's long-feared Typhoon-class strategic nuclear submarines have been deactivated because there are no longer any reliable intercontinental ballistic missiles for them to carry and launch, Fleet Admiral Gennady Suchkov told Interfax news agency in an interview carried on the MosNews.com website. Suchkov was disgraced and given a suspended sentence following the loss of the nuclear submarine K-159 in August 2003 near Murmansk in the Arctic Ocean, MosNews.com said. Suchkov said the Russian Navy is trying to develop a new nuclear missile, the Bulava, to rearm the Typhoons but it does not even have a prototype ready yet. All rights reserved. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Airbag Inflators Provide Push For New Surface Vessel Launcher Newport RI (SPX) May 25, 2004 SEA CORP announced today that it supported the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in a series of tests in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to demonstrate a new torpedo launcher concept for surface ships and to gather launch vehicle water entry data from high speed launches. |
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