"Bulava" reached the goal for the second time in a row

The 14th test launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile of the Bulava’s marine base was successful - the combat blocks of a rocket launched from the White Sea, at the established time struck the target at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the representative of the press service department and information of the Ministry of Defense. "On October twenty -ninth, at 5.10, the heavy atomic missile submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy, under the command of the first rank captain Oleg Tsybin, made a successful launch of the latest ballistic missile" Bulava "from the White Sea. Starting from the submarine in the framework of the program of the State Design Construction Complex" The interlocutor of the agency.

The second consecutive successful trial of the intercontinental ballistic missile of the Bulava, carried out on Friday, confirms the version that the cause of the previous failures could be the assembly technology, said a source in the State Commission that conducted a detailed analysis of the technological chain of production of the rocket. The interlocutor of the agency recalled that to establish the exact causes of failures with the test of the rocket, three samples were collected, the assembly process of which was controlled at each stage. "Thus, it can be previously concluded that the reasons for the unsuccessful launches was the assembly technology. However, the final conclusion can be made only after another launch, which is planned before the end of this year," the source said.

"Immediately after the return (the last launch) Dmitry Donskoy submarine to the base, the commission will begin to study the data of the 14th launch and plan the date of the next - the 15th launch of the rocket. This will be the last trial in 2010," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Of the 13 previous launches of the Bulava, only six were recognized as successful. At the same time, each time the causes of unsuccessful launches were very different - both defective pyropatrons, and the non -rejection of the steps of the rocket. Until today, the last successful launch of the rocket was carried out on October 7 from the side of the atomic submarine of the strategic purpose "Dmitry Donskoy". The launch was carried out from the submarine of the submarine from the White Sea. At the same time, out of 12 launches made before that, there was not a single successful from the underwater position. All successful launches were made from the board of Dmitry Donskoy, which was in the surface position. The launch of the Bulava, which became the 12th in a row, took place on December 9, 2009 and was declared unsuccessful.

P30 3M30 "BULAVA-30" (RSM-56-for use in international treaties, SS-NX-30-according to the NATO classification)-a three-stage solid fuel missile. The engines of the first and second steps are solid fuel, the third - liquid - to ensure the necessary maneuvering rate at the stage of breeding combat blocks. The start of the rocket is tilted, allows the Premier League Starting the rocket in motion under water. The rocket can carry 6-10 hypersonic maneuvering nuclear blocks of individual guidance, capable of changing the flight path in height and course. It has a low -rise flight profile.