Launches of Onyx and Kalibr-PL cruise missiles, including one salvo, from the Novosibirsk nuclear submarine of Project 885M (code "Yasen-M") are scheduled for mid-November. This was announced on Tuesday, October 26, according to TASS, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.
"According to the Novosibirsk state testing program, launches of Onyx and Kalibr-PL cruise missiles are planned for mid-November from both surface and underwater positions. Among them, one will be a salvo," he said.
Izvestia does not have an official confirmation of this information.
On October 4, the Ministry of Defense announced a double test of a hypersonic sea-based missile. The press service of the ministry distributed a video of the launch of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the submarine "Severodvinsk", going in a surface position. Later that day, representatives of the Ministry of Defense announced the second successful test from an underwater position from a depth of 40 m. Both shootings from aboard the nuclear submarine project 885 "Ash" were carried out in the dark. A training target in the Barents Sea was shelled. As sources in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia, the tests carried out confirmed the set parameters of the complex.
