MOSCOW, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Northern Fleet said Thursday that the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan successfully struck a surface target at a distance of 300 km using an Oniks cruise missile during a planned combat training exercise.
Kazan "carried out a launch of an Oniks cruise missile from a submerged position at a sea target simulating a ship of a mock enemy located up to 300 km away," the fleet's press service said in a statement posted on its website.
Objective monitoring confirmed that the missile's warhead successfully hit the maritime target, the fleet added.
The launch was conducted from the Barents Sea. Surface ships and naval aviation units of the fleet were involved in securing the exercise area and supporting the firing operation.
Kazan is a modified version of the fourth-generation nuclear-powered submarines designed with reduced acoustic signatures. The vessels are equipped with long-range precision missile weapons capable of striking targets on land, at sea and underwater.
Kazan was laid down at the Sevmash shipyard in the Russian city of Severodvinsk in 2009, and officially commissioned into the Russian Navy in 2021. ■