Russia: Navy Tests a New ICBM, Military Officials Say The Russian Navy has successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile for a second time in recent months, proving its reliability after decades of failures, the Defense Ministry said Friday. The nuclear submarine Aleksandr Nevsky test-fired a Bulava missile from an underwater position in the Barents Sea, the ministry said. The missile's warheads reached targets at a testing range in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia now has three nuclear submarines armed with the Bulava.