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Bulava missile: 13th time lucky
Published: 07 October, 2010, 23:57
Edited: 12 October, 2010, 21:11
TAGS: Arms, Military, Nuclear, Russia, Vehicles, Prime Time Russia
The newest Russian intercontinental nuclear missile Bulava has successfully been tested on Thursday. All warheads hit their targets on Kamchatka Peninsula.
Strategic ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarine Dmitry Donskoy, the world’s biggest existing submarine, has successfully launched the Bulava missile from the White Sea in Russia’s Far North to the Kura Range, 380 kilometers to the north of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city.
This launch breaks a chain of unsuccessful tests. Unofficially, of the previous 12, only five were considered fully effective.
Bulava (SS-NX-30 by NATO classification) is Russia’s latest three-stage, solid-propellant missile, which carries 10 hypersonic maneuvering warheads with a payload up to 150 kilotons each, at a distance of up to 8,000 kilometers.
The missile was designed specially for the new SSBN Borey class, which is set with the missile silos inclined towards the stem so they can be fired from submerged positions without stopping the vessel. Construction of the first Borey class submarine Yury Dolgoruky is complete. The construction of the other two, Aleksandr Nevsky and Vladimir Monomakh, is underway.
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The previous failures of the missile put the whole project under question at a certain point, but it was decided to drive a nail home. Thus the responsibility for the launch was immense and unprecedented measures of production quality control were introduced.
Borey submarines armed with Bulava missiles are expected to be an integral part of the Russian nuclear triad until 2040.
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@ Count CashMr Тухачевский, don't be so upbeat. Remember Warsaw Battle, 1920?You boast like Hitler in '30s, and look, how it all ended?
Somehow I feel this time Europe will be set ablaze (and bathed in blood) by Russia - turanians knows no other way to "grow" (can't really say "develop") than to conquere, kill and rob. But I digress here.
Look at the Russia - she has all the things a country need to become a REAL superpower, with flourishing economy and her citizens* happy and rich. She has oil, gas, all kind of minerals, lot of arable land, unimaginable amount of forests... Yet, it is still an economic pariah (and always be - at least as long it will continue its ways, forced on them by Mongols, centuries ago).
And, oh, BTW: when (and IF) your "as inteligent as human" T-50 fighter will finally start to appear in your airforces, America will be using the sixth generation fighter, F-35. Plus some other fancy gadgets (rail guns, perhaps?) that your engineers will be able to "reproduce", well, after an another decade or two. And by that time America... ;-)
From Poland with love,kB ;-)
PS: Please do polish your English a bit if you want to post on English websites. If not for a fact that I'm Slavic language native speaker myself, I could hardly understand what you'd wanted to say in your post._____* - unfortunatelly, the very concept of "citizen" is absolutely foreign for Russian rulers - the Russian people are all "rabs"for them, which is even lower than "subjects" (as was the case with, say, English monarchs).Just compare this: "we, the people" with "we, the Tsar samodierzhavnyj"