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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Russian missile test fails again
Russia's new nuclear-capable Bulava missile has suffered a new failure in testing which was the likely source of a mysterious light that appeared over Norway, Russian newspaper reports said Thursday.
The submarine-launched Bulava missile was test-fired from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine in the White Sea early Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers reported, quoting defence sources.
The test was the 13th test-firing of the Bulava and the ninth time that the launch has failed, Vedomosti said. The missile is central to Russia's plan to revamp its ageing weapons arsenal but is struggling with development problems.
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