The method of three and errors
3M30 The Bulava is a sea-based strategic ballistic missile. Developed for the armament of nuclear submarine missile-carriers of the 955 Borey project, the first of which, Yuri Dolgoruky, is already being tested. The range of the rocket - about 8 thousand. Km. According to the data of the Russian Federation, declared under the START-1 agreement, the Bulava is equipped with six warheads.
According to the Minister of Defense, the problem of failed missile launches is the quality of their assembly. Recall that from the 12 start-ups of the Bulava, seven were unsuccessful, and three more were recognized as "partially successful." The last unsuccessful launch was made from a heavy strategic submarine cruiser Dmitry Donskoy (941U Shark project) on December 9 on 2009 of the year (see Kommersant on December on 10).
Then, unofficially, the cause of the failure of the Ministry of Defense was the failure of the third step. As noted in the comments agency "RIA News"Mr. Serdyukov, now three" absolutely identical "Bulava" rockets are being created. This, in his opinion, will help: "We expect that this will allow us to accurately find the error, if there is one, since it should be repeated in all three rockets. Now we are working on how to control the assembly process in order to know that all the rockets are identical. "The tests themselves will not be resumed in the summer, as they have repeatedly promised before, but only in the fall." By November, I think we can start rocket launches, " Said the minister.
Two weeks ago, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral fleet Vladimir Vysotsky promised on May 20 to unveil all the reasons for the failure of the last launch of the Bulava. However, this did not happen.
As the former chief of the headquarters of the strategic missile forces, Colonel-General Retired Viktor Esin, explained to Kommersant, the missile tests were really wanted to continue in the summer. However, a meeting of the special interdepartmental commission of the Ministry of Defense and representatives of the defense industry complex was held recently, at which it was decided to postpone them. According to Mr. Esin, the transfer of tests is connected with the fact that the commission has established "serious inconsistencies in the overall cooperation on the Bulava project," and related enterprises supply substandard equipment for the rocket. Nevertheless, Victor Yesin is sure that there is no alternative to the Bulava, “the rocket must be brought to the end,” especially since he considers its design “workable”.
"The problem of the Bulava is a problem of the quality of the elements supplied for it, it leaves much to be desired," said Andrei Frolov, an expert at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. And the chief designer of Bulava, academician Yuri Solomonov (who recently debuted as a writer and prose writer with the story Nuclear Vertical about the plight of a rocket engineer), in April reiterated that the main causes of missile launches are defective materials and lack of quality control. But neither he nor the military so clearly and did not say what specific "materials" or "technologies" they
suspect.
- Ivan Konovalov
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