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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Bulava launch failure was caused by violations of nozzle production technologies

Bulava test launchThe commission investigating the failed launch of a strategic sea-based missile Bulava has determined that the failure of the launch was caused by violations in the missile production technologies, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov told reporters on Wednesday.

"The commission has completed its work. The causes have been determined. They are technological and are related to the production of the nozzle," Borisov told a roundtable meeting on state defense contracts.

The cause of the failure does not call into question "the correctness of the production of the product in general," he said.

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