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Friday, September 28, 2007
Battling the Bulava Bull
Engineers and scientists who build Russia's ballistic missiles are fighting back at government efforts to rush the new, 45 ton, Bulava SLBM (Sea Launched Ballistic Missile) into service before it's ready.
Although the Bulava failed four of six recent tests, the Russian navy recently announced that the missile would go into mass production.
In the past (during the Cold War), it was customary to conduct 12-30 (or more) tests, over 80 percent of them successful, before a new SLBM (or ICBM) was mass produced.
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