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Moscow (AFP) March 4, 2010 The Russian military on Thursday successfully tested a strategic missile from a submarine in the Arctic, Russia's federal space agency said. "A Sineva missile was launched on March 4 at 7:50 am Moscow time (0450 GMT) from the Tula rocket-carrying submarine in the Barents Sea. The launch was successful," the agency said in a statement. The Sineva is an intercontinental missile capable of carrying up to 10 nuclear warheads, according to the website GlobalSecurity.org. The missile, whose NATO reporting name is the SS-N-23 Skiff, has been in service with the Russian military since 2007. The successful test-firing of the Sineva comes after a series of embarrassing failures of another submarine-launched missile that Russia is developing, the Bulava. Russia has announced plans for a large-scale rearmament and renewal of its nuclear missile arsenal.
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