Just a week ago, we reported that Russia had . Today, just a week later, Russia has fired off yet another SLBM from the same location, which borders on the increasingly

This time, a submerged, Northern Fleet based Russian ballistic nuclear submarine, most likely a, test-fired a . The missile traveled over thousands of miles to Russia's Kura Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, located in Russia's far east.

This was also where the October 29th launch of a solid-fueled RSM-56 Bolava SLBM by a new SSBN ended up as well. You can see the October 29th launch from inside the modern Borei Class boat compared to footage of today's launch from inside an older Delta IV Class boat below:

Beyond questionable readiness and training objectives, this latest SLBM launch was most likely executed to make it clear to the West that Russia's older Delta IV SSBNs are still a capable deterrent, even though Russia's advanced Borei Class has taken the reigns as the Russian Navy's most capable ballistic missile submarines.

Also, both these tests, along with increasingly complex and uncooperative Russian military aircraft flights towards NATO borders, coincide nicely with Vladmir Putin's increasing .

All of this is as . And after two ballistic missile launches in a row, a very peculiar occurrence, Russian bombers and interceptors showing up all over the globe and the soft threat of nuclear war, it is fairly scary to think of what Mr. Putin's next international attention grabbing 'gesture' will be.

This shot, taken in 1992 at Russia's strategic Northern Fleet port of Severomorsk, shows one of the