Itar-Tass,
MOSCOW: A Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile at 11:07, Moscow time, on Wednesday, a Defense Ministry official told Itar-Tass.
It was a scheduled launch in accordance with the combat training plan, the official said.
The missile is to hit a designated target at the Kura firing range in Kamchatka.
The Russian Navy's North Fleet began a large exercise on Wednesday.
Naval officials reported that they had corrected the shortcomings, detected in the course of a command and staff drill last year.
In February 2004, the nuclear submarines Novomoskovsk and Karelia failed to launch three RSM-54 missiles.
President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov were watching the launching of missiles.
