ANOTHER FAILURE FOR NEW RUSSIAN MISSILE.

An RSM-52V submarine-launched ballistic missile blew up on November 20 just four seconds after it had been launched from the Nenoks test range in northern Russia. The missile, known in the West as the SS-NX-28, is being developed to equip the next generation of Russian ballistic missile submarines. The test was variously described as the third or fourth for the new missile — all of them failures. (Russian media, November 20-21)

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