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Russia announced that its SSBNs (nuclear powered ballistic missile boats) would resume long range "combat patrols" later this year. In recent years, there have been only about ten such patrols a year, each lasting three months or less. Most have not gone far from Russian waters and some were not even made by SSBNs.[strategypage.com]
The Russian Navy will acquire at least ten new Borey class strategic nuclear submarines in line with a revised state armament procurement program aimed at raising the submarine fleet as the core of the country's naval force in future, the Kommersant daily reported on Tuesday.[rttnews.com]