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(via Ria Novosti)
Generally speaking, the preferred direction for a ballistic missile, especially a sub-launched one is UP
Six launch failures is also not career enhancing – at least its not off to the Gulag in the New Russia …
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10 Responses to “Bulava SLBM Fails…Again”
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Maybe we could send Prime Minister Putin a Bulova with a note saying, “Just change a vowel and it will work.”
July 29th, 2009 at 10:03 pmOne thing about the Rooskies, though. They’re persistent. They will get this thing to work if they have to kill all the pro-Western ethnic minorities to do it….
July 30th, 2009 at 5:26 amthanks for sharing the good news SJS
July 30th, 2009 at 11:08 amWhat kind of ship is in the pic? I thought it might be an Osa, but the superstructure looks too substantial.
July 30th, 2009 at 11:18 amBlowing up (hmm, poor choice of words considering the subject – maybe expanding?)the picture, I’m thinking maybe a Ropucha LST? If so, and unless there was then some special rig for a test launch (not entirely implausible as SLBMs have been tested from specially fitted barges in the past) me thinks maybe the subject picture provided by Ria Novosti was wrong (wouldn’t be the first either). OTOH, it *was* a first stage failure and fairly soon after launch…
July 30th, 2009 at 12:45 pm- SJS
It is a Nanuchka and it looks like a SS-N-9. Of course those are the NATO names and God knows what the Russians call them now. It is not a SLBM launch, but a SSM.
July 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pmStill not as good as they day they sank their own sub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk_explosion
(too soon?)
July 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pmJim,
Too soon. Like their philosophy or not, sailors probably unnecessarily perished with the Kursk because of Russian reluctance to request assistance. Fortunately the same mistake was not made during the entanglement of the Priz (AS-28). BZ to the UK Remora Submarine rescue professionals. BZ to the Russians for sending up a red star cluster.
V/R,
July 30th, 2009 at 6:33 pmGood ol Russia Tech gone awry, save thier vodka production.
July 30th, 2009 at 7:09 pmNo threat here?
Overworked Cold War sub tech since 1990s?
Or is this a ruse?
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