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Borey submarine launch postponed until 2007

Yet another delay for Yuri Dolgorukiy - the lead ship of the Project 955 Borey class. The plan to have the submarine in service by the end of 2006 proved too optimistic. The new date, announced by Admiral Vladimir Masorin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, is 2007. He hopes that by that time the industry will produce enough Bulava missiles to deploy on the submarine. But given that Bulava just completed its first flight test, I would consider this highly unlikely.

[Navy] [November 22, 2005] []

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This is just a delay, with the US withdrawal from the ABM treaty - Russia gets to abregate START II and extend the life of its heavy ICBMs which are all mostly MRVs ... therefore modernizing and keeping `the Nuclear Triad' in place ... it becomes key to the Russians over the next decade plus and so does mutual defense pact treaties with ex-Soviet States and more military cooperation with China in the realm of strategic excercises.

[Ozzy] [November 30, 2005] [#]

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