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In March 2006 Sevmashpredpriyatiye will begin construction of the third submarine of the Project 955 Borey class (tentatively named "Vladimir Monomakh"). The first two ships of this class are still in construction with the launch of the lead submarine,...
As the history of the cold war clearly demonstrates, nuclear primacy is a notoriously poorly defined and elusive goal. This is why it was very interesting to read the article by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, “The Rise of U.S....
A flight test of the Bulava ballistic missile attempted today at 19:50 MSK (15:50 UTC) apparently ended in failure. According to a representative of the Ministry of Defense, quoted by ITAR-TASS, the missile strayed off course and fell into the...
The Russian press is slowly picking up the story about the failed flight test of the Bulava missile that took place on November 12th, 2007. I thought it would be useful to collect in one place what we know about...
Bulava missile test history Date Comment 0.1 12/11/03 Success Pop-up test of a mockup of the missile. 0.2 09/23/04 Success Pop-up test. 1 09/27/05 Success(?) First flight test. Launch from a surfaced submarine. Reports about failure of the third stage....
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How many more Bulava test-launches will be executed? There are claims that the tests period should end in 2006.
It the Topol-M test history is of any guide, then I would guess there will be two or three more launches before they will start loading missiles on a submarine. The tests, however, will continue "in parallel". We will see.
Dear Pavel, there are a lot of rumors about the Bulava, i.e.:
- that will have 10 warheads, that will have only 4.
- That Borey transport 12 Bulavas, that Borey will in the future (vessels 4 to 6) transport 16
- That it will be a land-based version of this SLBM.
May be you could clarify some issues about this missile like payload, numbers per submarine and so on.
These are good questions and I wish I knew the answers. All these things seem to be theoretically possible. We'll just have to wait for more information.