New Russian sub will get spring sea trial

MOSCOW, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Russia's first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine will get its first sea trials in the spring, military officials said Wednesday.

The sub will tested after warmer weather enables navigation to open in the White Sea, Russian Navy commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky told RIA Novosti.

"The ice floe conditions in the White Sea at present are still not favorable for navigation. The submarine's crew and a team of Sevmash specialists continue to ready the vessel for the trials," Vysotsky said.

The nuclear sub Yury Dolgoruky was completed at the Sevmash plant in northern Russia in April 2007 and is equipped with new sea-based Bulava ballistic missiles, which have not entered service but are due to undergo further testing this year, the news service said.