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Submarine "Yuri Dolgoruky" conducted a successful launch of "Bulava"

MOSCOW, June 28 - RIA Novosti. The nuclear submarine "Yuri Dolgoruky" on Tuesday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile "Bulava" ​​in the White Sea - the launch was all respects a success, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov told RIA Novosti.

"For the first time in the program state flight tests of the complex missile launch was conducted from a submerged position with the regular carrier, which is the nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky. Submarine was commanded by Captain First Rank Vladimir Shirin" - Konashenkov said.

He added that the "launch was in all respects conducted successfully," delivered warheads "Bulava" in a given area of the "Kura" test range (Kamchatka) in due time.

According to Konashenkov, the crew of the submarine during test firing showed high professionalism and military training.

This was the fifteenth launch of "Bulava", with only seven of the previous 14 launches were successful. Previous testing was held on 29 October 2010 and became successful. Date of the next missile test several times shifted - to determine the causes of failed launches.

All launches up to June 28, 2011 were made from the submarine "Dmitry Donskoy" (project (941U, the code "Akula"). Launch of Bulava from "Yuri Dolgoruky" submarine (project 955, code "Northwind") occurred for the first time.

Intercontinental ballistic missile of sea basing R-30 3M30 "Bulava-30" (RSM-56 for use in international treaties, SS-NX-30 - according to NATO classification) is Russia's latest three-stage solid rocket being placed in submarines.
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Wall83

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Nice to see that things are working. Lets just hope the next test also is a success.
Then the Borei production could relly be speeded up.
 
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KiwiRob

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Feanor said:
They're getting the SENIT 9 after all.

EDIT: STX together with USC are building the new shipyards in Kotlin island, St. Petersburg. They will be called the New Admiralty Shipyard, and will be capable of constructing ships of up to 200 000 tonns.Ownership will be 30% on the Koreans, 70% on USC.

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And how long have they been planning on building this new yard? They have been showing plans for years, I don't doubt that it will be built but its a long way off, especially since the current Admiralty Shipyard has invested in new shipyard cranes and other facilities.
 
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KiwiRob said:
And how long have they been planning on building this new yard? They have been showing plans for years, I don't doubt that it will be built but its a long way off, especially since the current Admiralty Shipyard has invested in new shipyard cranes and other facilities.
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I think I read somewhere that they are planning for the third and fourth Mistrals to be constructed in the new shipyard, so they need to start building it if they want to use it for that.
 
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KiwiRob said:
And how long have they been planning on building this new yard? They have been showing plans for years, I don't doubt that it will be built but its a long way off, especially since the current Admiralty Shipyard has invested in new shipyard cranes and other facilities.
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The plans probably rested heavily on the Mistral deal.
 
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KiwiRob

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Feanor said:
The plans probably rested heavily on the Mistral deal.
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They have been talking about this new yard for at least 10 years, well before the Mistral deal was even thought about. The current Admiralty has the ability to build them as does Baltisky.


kev 99 said:
Nuclear powered aircraft carriers and destroyers?

Personally I think those plans look wildly optimistic.
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I've learnt to take anything USC says with a grain of salt. They talk a lot and build very little.
 
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KiwiRob said:
They have been talking about this new yard for at least 10 years, well before the Mistral deal was even thought about. The current Admiralty has the ability to build them as does Baltisky.




I've learnt to take anything USC says with a grain of salt. They talk a lot and build very little.
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Especially when they talk about larger ships. Then again they will need new destroyers eventually, so they will build or try to build them in some form. The question is what that will look like, and when.

Anyways, it seems you're right. The plans are for construction to start in 2017. This is starting to look like a dream plan.

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They had been in the past. There was some rumors of plans to build their own in Krasnodar region, but given that the future of deck-aviation in Russia is in question they may have decided to continue using the NITKA.
 
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They had been in the past. There was some rumors of plans to build their own in Krasnodar region, but given that the future of deck-aviation in Russia is in question they may have decided to continue using the NITKA.
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There have been reports in Ria Novosti about a second carrier by 2020, it even said nuclear carrier, is this the prep for training pilots for it?
 
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No. As it stands, the Kuznetsov will enter planned maintenance and modernization, along the same lines as the Gorshkov, next year, which will mean that without NITKA there will be nowhere to train carrier pilots. As it is there is work being done to determine what an aircraft carrier might look like, but no concrete plans to build one. That having been said, if everything goes according to plan (which it never does) it would make sense to start building a new aircraft carrier in ~2017-18, after the Kuznetsov refit is done, and the budget gets big enough to accommodate it.
 
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The developer has been trying to lobby for this for a long time. Until we hear something from the MoD or VMF I'd ignore his claims.
 
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T.C.P

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The land based Pantsir in my view is an excellent Point defense Gun/SAM system, if a naval version is produced, will its short range mean it will be used more like a CIWS system?
 
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