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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Russia's Bulava missile fails yet another test

Russia's latest test launch of its long-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was another failure, and it was more costly than most as the Russian government had already approved the missile for full-scale production.

On Dec. 25 four-star Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, announced that he believed production flaws were probably to blame for the test-launch failure Dec. 23. It was the fifth failure out of 10 Bulava test launches.

This test failure was especially disappointing to the Russian navy and Strategic Missile Forces as it followed a highly successful test on Nov. 28 when a Bulava fired from the strategic nuclear-powered submarine Dmitry Donskoy in the White Sea hit a target 4,200 miles away in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East.

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