OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s military intelligence service said on Monday that Russia’s test last week of the nuclear-powered Burevestnik long-range cruise missile was launched from the Arctic Barents Sea archipelago of Novaya Zemlya.
Russia stated on Sunday it had successfully tested the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) – dubbed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO – a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield, but did not say where the launch took place.
“We can confirm that Russia has conducted a new test launch of the long-range cruise missile Skyfall (Burevestnik) on Novaya Zemlya,” Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensoenes, head of Norway’s Intelligence Service, told Reuters in an emailed statement.
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)
