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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Will Russia get the Bulava?

Project 941 TyphoonProblems besetting tests of the Bulava - a promising intercontinental ballistic missile for the navy - have long been in the focus of discussion.

Bulava abortive launches are putting at risk the re-equipment of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces, which badly need replacements for aging Soviet-built missile-carrying submarines and missiles.

Russia has inherited two classes of strategic missile submarines from the Soviet Union. One is Project 667, now represented by six 667BDRM submarines built in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and five older 667BDRs. The other is Project 941, developed as a response to Ohio-class submarines that were designed in the United States.

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  1. Pete1/3/09 13:52

    Project 941, a 50,000 ton sub sounds like a good indicator of mismanagement and delusions of grandeur.

    Russian submarine missile builders seem never to have recovered from that grandiose vision.

    But its all for the best - its good to be on the side of the ally (the US) whose Tridents work.

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