Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law at the beginning of November withdrawing from the international treaty to stop nuclear tests, the Russian navy demonstrated its nuclear deterrent potential: a nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was fired from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III over a distance of 5,600 kilometres into a target area on the Kamchatka peninsula in the White Sea. The first test of this weapon system in over a year may be regarded as the final proof of function for the Borei-class submarines, but it was celebrated in the official state narrative as an indication of the functionality of the core element of the Russian nuclear strategy.<\/p>\n
Even if the Russian Navy's surface units are not in a good position at the moment following the setbacks in the Black Sea fleet, Russia is pushing ahead with the renewal of its underwater capacities all the more vigorously. The current fleet now has three nuclear-powered Borei-class submarines, a fourth is in the test phase and three more are under construction. They are each equipped with 16 Bulava missiles (SS-NX-30, six nuclear-tipped, 12 metres long, 8000 km range) and modern torpedo systems.
\nRussia justified its withdrawal from the nuclear test treaty by arguing that it should have the same options as the other major nuclear power. Unlike Russia, the USA has never ratified the treaty. However, the United States, like all other countries except North Korea, has complied with the test ban since the 1990s. After the test firing, however, the Russian Foreign Ministry declared that Russia would continue to refrain from testing nuclear weapons. Obviously, Moscow just wanted to point out that it could do otherwise.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nur wenige Tage nachdem Anfang November Russlands Staatspr\u00e4sident per Gesetz den Ausstieg aus dem internationalen Vertrag \u00fcber den Stopp von Nukleartests vollzogen hatte, demonstrierte die russische Marine ihr nukleares Abschreckungspotenzial: Von dem frisch in Dienst gestellten Atom-U-Boot Imperator Alexander III. wurde im Wei\u00dfen Meer eine atomwaffenf\u00e4hige Interkontinentalrakete vom Typ Bulawa \u00fcber eine Distanz von 5600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[1887,6549,6550,326,197,2534,3076],"class_list":["post-34470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-atom-u-boot","tag-borei-klasse","tag-nukleartest","tag-russische-marine","tag-russland","tag-schwarzmeer-flotte","tag-waffensystem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49834,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34470\/revisions\/49834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}