Americans are afraid of Russian "Bulava"
The other day all the Russian media with triumph and the world with some apprehension flew around news: in the waters of the White Sea missile The strategic submarine cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky under the command of Captain 1st Rank V. Shirin launched the Bulava ballistic missile. The Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced that the missile launch was successful according to all monitored parameters. The warheads were delivered by the Bulava ballistic missile on time to the designated area in the Kamchatka Territory, Kura testing ground. The submarine crew demonstrated high combat training and professionalism during the test launch.
The current test launch of the rocket was 15. Previously, it was planned for 17 December 2010, but then it was postponed due to the unavailability of the submarine. According to the official version, the reason was the difficult ice situation in the White Sea. Tests conducted on Tuesday, were held in the same area.
Of the previous 14 test launches of the Bulava, seven are considered successful or partially successful, the rest are considered emergency launches for various reasons, which the Ministry of Defense prefers not to talk about. The preliminary test launch of the Bulava missile was conducted on October 29, 2010, from the board of the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Dmitry Donskoy, which had been previously re-equipped to launch the new missile.
According to Viktor Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, after the current triumph, there is a belief that, until the end of this year, both the Bulava missile and the nuclear submarine with such a high profile historical the title - "Yuri Dolgoruky" - will be introduced into the Naval Fleet Russia.
"It is necessary to understand that the missile is not the only one involved in the launch, there is also a launcher located on the submarine, and then a whole system of guidance, flight control, launch, and more - all of this is installed on the boat," notes Viktor Litovkin. - In reality, figuratively speaking, the submarine cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky was as if married to the tactical missile Bulava. That is, this launch is really their wedding march of Mendelssohn and nothing else. The missile and the boat have all the prerequisites that by the end of 2011 they will be introduced into a single weapons system. But before that, there will be 5-6 launches of the Bulava missile from this boat, one of which should be carried out in a salvo. That is, not one launched missile, but at least two or three, which should be launched from the submarine almost simultaneously."
At the same time, in the Ministry of Defense of Russia, they prefer to keep silent about their nearest plans. The reason for this secrecy remains a mystery, and many are wondering if the 15 th launch of the Bulava was so successful?
In connection with the test launch of the Bulava rocket, the US military was somewhat nervous. In response to the Russian sailors' testing of a completely new ballistic missile, which, by the way, some experts called - “a rocket that cannot fly”, the US military announced the beginning of a new missile defense system test, which would be able to intercept the Bulava.
The problem with the Americans is that if Russia has proven that its rocket can still fly, their interception complex cannot please its government with such successes. In the US, this is not the comic scandal that is starting to flare up. The fact that the multibillion-dollar project, as it turned out in practice, is not a worker, became known literally the other day, and the senators of the upper chamber speak rather sharply about the misappropriation of budget funds.
But that's not all. Overseas senators, who had hitherto remained in unshakable confidence that in a few years the United States would receive a truly invulnerable "nuclear roof", were to experience an even more significant shock when they first learned that the existing sea-based anti-missiles did not have the ability to shoot down outdated ballistic missiles possible enemy classes. Or rather, as it turned out, praised by high officials from the Pentagon, the anti-missiles SM-3 cannot perform their task in the early stages of flight.
After the end of the evening hearings in the upper house of the United States Senate, Senator Richard Shelby was the most outraged: "Throughout this time, we were forced on a defense system that does not work." His associates also expressed their negative opinion about the work of military experts in the field of missile protection.
It is obvious that the successful launch of the Russian Bulava and the fact that the missile defense was inoperable put the Americans in an awkward position. They spent billions of dollars on the creation of an anti-nuclear umbrella, refused to install an anti-missile defense system in the UK, and as a result, they lose to Russia in all respects in the eternal leadership dispute in the world. For us, of course, this is like a balm, and for the Americans it’s like salt on a fresh wound.
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