Next Bulava launch scheduled for October 29
The next test launch of Russia’s troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile is scheduled for October 29, a source in the test flight commission said to RIA Novosti.
The last test launch of the Bulava missile was conducted from the White Sea on October 7. This was the first launch since the test program was halted in December last year, after several unsuccessful test launches. As RIA Novosti reports, the next launch is scheduled for October 29.
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This week’s planned test launch will probably be conducted from the rebuilt Typhoon-class nuclear submarine “Dmitry Donskoy”, the only sub so far to launch the hi-tech ballistic missile. It has earlier been said that if the next test is a success, the planned third test launch this year could be conducted from the submarine “Yury Dolgoruky”, the first of Russia’s fourth generation strategic Borey-class subs.
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