Congratulation Moscow! Bulava Sucess is spectacular!

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/russia-missile-test-idUSLDE75Q1QK20110628

Russia successfully tests new nuclear missile


MOSCOW, June 28 | Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:15pm EDT

(Reuters) - Russia successfully tested on Tuesday its new Bulava intercontinental missile which Moscow aims to make the cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal over the next decade.

The Defence Ministry said the 12-metre long Bulava, or Mace, fired from a submarine near Russia's border with Finland, successfully hit its target some 6,000 km (3,370 miles) away on the peninsula of Kamchatka in Russia's far east.

"The launch was successful in all respects. The Bulava missile delivered its warhead to the target area in the Kura testing site in the Kamchatka Peninsula region," spokesman Colonel Igor Konashenkov told Interfax.

The Bulava, which will face four more trials this year before being introduced into service this year or next, had failed half of its previous fourteen trials, calling into question the expensive missile programme.

Russia is looking to modernise its rusting armaments, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised to spend nearly 20 trillion roubles ($710 billion) over the next ten years to upgrade the country's crumbling armed forces.

The launch was carried out on Tuesday from the Yuri Dolgorukiy submarine, a new generation of Borei-class vessels, designed to carry to Bulava missiles, which weigh 36.8 tonnes and can travel a distance of 8,000 km (5,000 miles).

One missile can hold 6-10 nuclear warheads, which would deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945. ($1 = 28.222 Russian Roubles) (Reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Peter Graff)

 

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http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c32/174955.html

Test launch of Bulava missile successful - source

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MOSCOW, June 28 (Itar-Tass) —— There has been a successful test launch of the Bulava missile, a senior source in the government’s military-industrial commission has told Itar-Tass. “The launch was recognized as a success,” he said.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSM-56_Bulava

R-30 (RSM-56) Bulava [1]
Bulava.png
Bulava Missile variants
Type SLBM
Service history
In service planned for 2010
Used by Russian Navy
Production history
Designer Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
Manufacturer Votkinsk Plant State Production Association
Specifications
Weight 36.8 metric tons
Length 11.5 m (without warhead), 12.1 m (launch container)
Diameter 2 m (missile), 2.1 m (launch container)
Warhead 6 (can carry 10) re-entry vehicles with a yield of 150 kt each.[4]
Engine three stage solid propellant
Operational
range 8,000[2]

to 10,000 kilometers[3]
Guidance
system inertial, possibly with stellar sensor and/or GLONASS update
Launch
platform Borei class submarines

Typhoon class submarine Dmitry Donskoy

The Bulava (Russian: Булава, lit. "mace"; designation RSM-56, NATO

 

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What does this toy mean?

A sub in the sea north of Japan's Hokaido off Russian coast can launch several missiles beyond 8000km, can reach SG from there. Time to impact about 1.5hr. Can reach USA also. Each missile can carry 6 to 10 individually targeting nuclear warheads, re-entering earth atmosphere separately, each warhead to a different city or military base.

If the sub launched 5 times, and within 2 hrs or so, there will be a new world. Mushroom clouds will pop up everywhere like after a rain. 30+ targets is destroyed, May be 10-20 warheads could had been intercepted by defence system. But that does not alter the result of the war.

The sub have sufficient time to empty all the missiles on board before any counter attack can reach it, from the time it begin till attack is completed, all less than 40min, and it just surface from anywhere in ocean at any time to attack. By the time you realised of the attack missiles are already in the space on their ways to you. Sub had already completed mission. You will be busy escaping and attempting interception & prepare to die - this is for sure and for real.