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Bulava Launch Window
An OPK source told RIA Novosti yesterday a state commission on experimental flight testing has identified June 28-30 as the window for this year’s first Bulava SLBM test. The commission will select a...
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Bulava News
Today Navy CINC, Admiral Vladimir Vysotskiy announced four more tests of the Bulava SLBM this year. According to Interfaks, Vysotskiy said plans call for a salvo launch either this year or next,...
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Bulava Plans
Plans for Bulava SLBM testing may be shifting. When last we checked, Navy CINC Vysotskiy said look for four more tests with a salvo launch this year or next, but an OPK source said expect a salvo test...
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Failure to Launch
SSBN Yuriy Dolgorukiy (photo: RIA Novosti / Sergey Guneyev) Not the same as a failed launch, of course . . . Interfaks reports proyekt 955 Borey-class SSBN Yuriy Dolgorukiy cancelled a Bulava test...
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Bulava Test on Saturday
Yesterday RIA Novosti’s source in the state testing commission said Borey-class SSBN Yuriy Dolgorukiy will test fire a Bulava on August 27. The launch was originally scheduled for last Saturday when a...
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Bulava Success
Bulava Launch (photo: RIA Novosti / Avrora) Cheap post with a pretty picture thanks to RIA Novosti. This was a maximum range test, from the White Sea to a target area in the Pacific Ocean. It was the...
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Bulava Launch Plans
This week Izvestiya reported on coming launches of the Bulava SLBM. The paper’s sources say the military and industry want two single test firings before trying a salvo launch test. They suggest...
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Bulava Success
Interfaks and ITAR-TASS report Borey-class SSBN Yuriy Dolgorukiy successfully launched its third Bulava SLBM today, that’s the 17th overall test and the 10th success (including five in a row). The...
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Bulava Postponed?
A Bulava Test Interfaks reports an expected salvo launch of two Bulava SLBMs has been put off until next year, as Defense Minister Serdyukov said it might. The press agency cites a well-placed Navy...
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Medvedev Talks Bulava Acceptance
Medvedev Shakes Korolev's Hand This post is admittedly as much about using a good photo and video as relaying something you haven’t heard. But the visuals bring the subject to life a little. At any...
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Re-Industrializing for Military Modernization
Golts It’s been Golts overkill. Despite the risk of overdosing, he has an article in Ogonek from 25 September which merits attention. One could do much, much worse than to pick him, if you could read...
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Inter-Fleet
Vladimir Monomakh and Yuriy Dolgorukiy in Gadzhiyevo Interfaks-AVN reports Borey-class SSBN Aleksandr Nevskiy (K-550) will soon embark on an inter-fleet transfer from the Northern Fleet submarine base...
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