"Mace" will still be adopted
It was decided not to test the Bulava naval strategic nuclear forces complex and to adopt this complex. This was announced by D. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation.“Despite the remaining difficulties in the rocket and space industry, we have recently taken a very important step - the flight test cycle for a complex of naval strategic nuclear forces has been completed. This is about the Bulava,” the president said during a meeting with senior officers on Tuesday. According to now the complex will be adopted, RIA "reports.News".
In the future, the Bulava will become the basis of Russian naval strategic nuclear forces, the construction of submarines for this rocket has begun. Of the 18 start-ups, the Bulava recognized as successful were 11. In this case, the failures cost Yuri Solomonov, the chief developer of the rocket, the chair of the general director of MIT (Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering). In this post, he was replaced by Vladimir, Popovkin head of Roskosmos.
However, the media reports that soon the developer of Bulava will receive a curator from the entourage of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. The newspaper "Kommersant" reported that Alexander Shlyakhturov, dismissed from the post of head of the GRU, may change the chairman of the board of directors of MIT Vladimir Popovkin. However, this information has not been officially confirmed yet.
Recall that the tests of the Bulava, a sea-based ballistic missile, were launched in 2004. The first three launches were recognized as successful, but then there were failures. Of all the launches, from 4 to 12, only one was considered successful. After the twelfth launch of 2009 in December, the Bulava tests were stopped for nine months.
Despite all the previous failures, 2011 became super-successful: four launches made during this period were successful. They were produced from the nuclear submarine "Yuri Dolgoruky". Previously, all launches were carried out from the board of the 941 project of the Uk "Shark" Dmitry Donskoy modernized for this project of a heavy missile submarine cruiser.
After a successful salvo launch of two missiles "Bulava", made on December 23, sources in the state commission for conducting tests of this naval ballistic missile stated that the "Bulava" would be put into service in the very near future.
Prior to that, the Ministry of Defense of Russia has repeatedly stated that the positive results of the salvo launch will be decisive for adopting Yury Dolgoruky and the Bulava. According to the procedure of flight-design tests of these complexes, volley launch of missiles is the final and decisive one.
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