Russia Tests New Bulava SS-NX-30 SLBM

Other photo Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering

Да всё нормально теперь,ты откуда ?

г. Новосибирск Новосибирской области.

Да всё нормально теперь,ты откуда ?
Thanks a lot !

( Gradient – 🙂 )

What is interesting is that the newsman in the video says that the missile was launched from the moving Donskoi.

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Thanks Gradient for sharing it.

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The second launch

Video, bad weather, low quality 🙂
http://rapidshare.de/files/9889957/Bulava2.zip.html

Klub would be SS-N-27 , Janes is right about the Bulava being SS-NX-30 , The X will go away once she is made operational , It would be Bulava ( SS-N-30)

Incorrect. The 3M-14E carries the designation SS-NX-30. The 3M-14E is of substantial difference to carry a new designator. This is a standard list and available to all NATO members. Before I retired from the military the Bulava had not been codenamed. Jane’s is completley wrong about the designation that ‘it’ assigns to the Bulava. Ask SOC he will probably confirm the designator for the 3M-14E.

Yes the first launch of Bulava where it was fired from a surfaced Donosky , The second test which took place yesterday is from a submerged Donosky.

Thanks Gradient always nice to see the Bulava go up and away 🙂

The first launch on September, 27

video DivX 5.11 Bulava.zip, 719 kb.:
http://rapidshare.de/files/9684885/Bulava.zip.html

I just read in one russian forum,that the state television showed video of launch of Granit missile rather than Bulava.That cause much haos in the media.Journalist thought that the launch tubes of Bulava are in some angle. 😀
Here is photo from the report.

SS-NX-30. That designation belongs to the LACM Klub.

Klub would be SS-N-27 , Janes is right about the Bulava being SS-NX-30 , The X will go away once she is made operational , It would be Bulava ( SS-N-30)

from JDW 7 Dec 2005

From JMR Dec 05

I see Jane’s are at it again? The designation is not SS-NX-30. That designation belongs to the LACM Klub.

Probably developed by the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering, the Borey class will carry 12 SLBMs rather than the 20 installed in the Akula class. It has a length of 170 m, a submerged displacement of 7,000 tons and a crew of 130.

Its highly doubtful that she will displace 7,000 tons submerged ,For what is little been know about Borei its Displacement is somewhere between The delta IV and Typhoon , not exactly between but slighter larger than Delta-4 , May be similar to the Ohio SSBN.

Are there any plans for more than two Boomers to be built in Russia with this new missle?

from JNI Dec 2005

RSM-54 firings confirm reliability
David C Isby

An RSM-54 (SS-N-23 ‘Skiff’) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was launched from the Russian Pacific Fleet Project 667 BDR Kalmar-class (‘Delta III’) ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) Syvatoy Giorgiy Pobedonosets (Saint George Victorious) on 30 September 2005, writes David C Isby.
The missile was fired while the submarine was submerged in the Sea of Okhotsk and the re-entry vehicle was reported to have impacted in the Chizh range on the Kanin peninsula in the White Sea.
The successful test firing led to a statement by fleet commander Admiral Viktor Fyodorov that the launch had shown that the RSM-54 is capable of remaining in service for the foreseeable future. Adm Fyodorov told the Russian press that the service life and reliability of the RSM-54 were such that it could successfully serve until the introduction of the new Bulava (SS-NX-30) SLBM, and then overlap with it in service.
The Syvatoy Giorgiy Pobedonosets, currently under the command of Captain 1st Rank Valeriy Kravchenko, is considered to be among the most operationally capable SSBNs in the Pacific Fleet. Recomissioned in 2003 after more than a decade in dock, its previous successful SLBM launch was in 2004.
Another successful test of an RSM-54 was conducted from the Northern Fleet Kalmar-class SSBN Borisoglebsk on 7 October. It was the fifth successful test of this type of missile this year.

from JDW 7 Dec 2005

In Brief – Bulava missile to enter Russian Navy inventory in 2007
The SS-NX-30 Bulava submarine-launched strategic missile system will enter the Russian Navy’s inventory in 2007, Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Masorin told Interfax on 16 November in Astrakhan. Developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, the Bulava missile is a solid-fuel weapon capable of a range of more than 8,000 km and able to carry up to 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. According to Adm Masorin, “tests of the missile will continue this year” and Bulava is expected to enter the inventory of Project 955 Borey-class ballistic missile submarines, the first two of which are under construction at the Sevmashpredpriyatie yard in Severodvinsk.

From JMR Dec 05

Bulava SLBM makes successful first flight
Doug Richardson

Russia has successfully completed the first submerged test launch of the new Bulava (SS-NX-30) submarine-launched strategic missile system, writes Doug Richardson. The missile was launched from the trials submarine Dmitriy Donskoy at 1722 h Moscow time on 27 September 2005 from a location in the White Sea.
During an earlier test launch in 2004, the missile had been unpowered, but the 27 September launch used a missile with live stages. It carried only a single warhead, which reached its designated target at the Kura range in Kamchatka. There are no reports of decoys being released.
A video sequence of the launch was shown on the Russian weekly current affairs television programme Vesti Nedeli on 9 October. Viewers were told that the missile was “faster than all other equivalent missiles” and able to release individually targeted warheads along with “dozens” of decoys. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has announced that the new missile will enter service by the end of 2007.
Dmitri Donskoy was laid down at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk on 30 June 1976. Lead ship of the Project 941/941U Akula (‘Typhoon’) class, it was commissioned on 12 December 1981. In its original configuration, the submarine had 20 launch tubes for Makeyev RSM 52/3M20 (SS-N-20 ‘Sturgeon’) ballistic missiles.
An extensive modernisation process started in 1994 was intended to convert the vessel to act as a trials submarine for the Bark (SS-N-28) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), but development of this weapon was cancelled in 1998 following several unsuccessful test flights. Further modifications were made to allow the boat to carry and fire the follow-on Bulava missile. The submarine was finally relaunched on 26 June 2002 and started sea trials in August 2004.
Developed by the Moscow Institute for Thermal Technology, Bulava was intended to have a high commonality with that organisation’s Topol-M (SS-27) land-based intercontinental ballistic missile. It has a maximum range of more than 8,300 km.
On 7 October, General Yuri Baluyevsky, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, was reported as saying that Bulava was “capable of being used either at sea or on land”, but it was not clear from published reports whether a land-based version was currently planned.
The new state defence programme due to be submitted to President Vladimir Putin in 2006 would cover a 50 per cent increase in the procurement of military hardware, said Baluyevsky, who noted that the Russian military’s desire to have larger numbers of modern weapons took into account the fact that the country faced other problems that would require large financial resources.
An Internet website maintained by Pavel Podvig, author of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, has released the first publicly available technical data for the Bulava. Citing information released to the US government in the latest exchange information on strategic weapons, Podvig said that the Bulava, “which was designated RSM-56 for the purposes of the [START] treaty”, is about 12 m long, 2 m in diameter and has a launch weight of almost 37 tonnes.
Like the Topol-M, Bulava is a three-stage solid-propellant missile. The Bulava is about a third shorter than Topol-M, but the first-stage diameter has been increased. While Topol-M has upper stages of decreasing diameter, Bulava uses the same diameter for all three stages.
The Russian designation is reported to be R-30. According to Podvig, the industrial index for the missile is 3M30.
Podvig is sceptical of claims that Bulava will be able to carry 10 warheads. On his website, he estimates that the operational payload will be “more like three or four. The missile is just not big enough to carry 10 warheads (unless they are really small and low-yield)”.
If Russian claims that the missile will carry large numbers of decoys are correct, Podvig’s assessment may be realistic. Bulava is the same size and weight class as the RSM-54/R-29RM/3M27 Shetal (SS-N-23 ‘Skiff’) carried by Delfin (Delta IV)-class (Project 667 BDRM) submarines. This was tested with a payload of 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), but was deployed with only four and may also carry decoys. The RSM-52/R-39/3M65 (SS-N-20 ‘Sturgeon’), which arms the Akula (Typhoon)-class ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs), carries 10 MIRVs, but this missile is more than twice the weight of the Bulava.
Bulava is intended to arm the new Project 955 Borey-class nuclear-powered SSBNs. Probably developed by the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering, the Borey class will carry 12 SLBMs rather than the 20 installed in the Akula class. It has a length of 170 m, a submerged displacement of 7,000 tons and a crew of 130. Based on a single-shaft power plant designed around an OK-650-type reactor, it will have a maximum submerged speed of 26 kt.
According to Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, the Borey class will have “substantially better hydrodynamic characteristics and acoustic parameters” than current Russian SSBNs.
Lead ship of the class is the Yuri Dolgoruky. This was laid down at the Sevmash plant on 2 November 1996, but construction was slowed and then halted following cancellation of the Bark (SS-NX-28) missile. Work was under way once more by 2002 and the vessel is due to be launched this year. It will be handed over to the Russian Navy in 2006 and be fully operational in 2007.
Alexander Nevsky, the second of class, was laid down on 19 March 2004 and a third may be under construction at the same facility. A class of at least six is expected.
In August 2003, Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Moskovsky, who is responsible for defence procurement, announced that the Alexander Nevsky would be commissioned in 2009 and the third yet-unnamed example in 2010. If sufficient funding is allocated, these are intended to enter service in 2009 and 2010 respectively. These timings would depend on the availability of funding. Moskovsky has warned that underfunding could delay these deployments by one-and-a-half to two years.
Given the slow progress with the Borey-class SSBNs, the trials submarine Dmitriy Donskoy is expected to assume an operational role with the new missile once Bulava trials have been completed. It is unclear whether all of the vessel’s launch tubes have been modified to fire the Bulava.
Bulava Topol-M
Length (without payload) 11.5 m 17.9 m
Length (in launch container) 12.1 m 22.7 m
Diameter (first stage) 2 m 1.86 m
Diameter (second stage) 2 m 1.61 m
Diameter (third stage) 2 m 1.58 m
Diameter of launch canister 2.1 m 1.95 m
Launch weight 36.8 tonnes 47.2 tonnes

Wow One more Bulava Test Great news there ……, So things are moving fast for the RuN

Hmmm… Let’s see… attack a country where they DIDN’T come from? :rolleyes:

😮 😀 😀 😀

Russia successfully launches new ballistic missile
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11438756
MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) – The strategic submarine Dmitry Donskoy incorporated in Russia’s Northern Fleet successfully launched a latest ballistic missile Bulava from the White Sea on Wednesday morning, a Russian Defense Ministry source told Interfax.

“It was an underwater launch,” the source said.

Russian Navy commander’s aide Cap. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo later told Interfax that the missile’s reentry vehicle hit a target at the Kura range on the Kamchatka Peninsula at a calculated time.

“This was the first underwater launch of a Bulava missile and the second launch conducted as part of the series of the missile’s tests,” he said.

Russian Navy Deputy Commander Adm. Mikhail Zakharenko, who leads an ad hoc state commission for the Bulava trials is present onboard the Dmitry Donskoy now, Dygalo said.

Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Masorin congratulated the vessel’s commander, Cap. 1st Rank Arkady Romanov, and the crew on the successful launch.

The Dmitry Donskoy carried out the first test surface launch of a Bulava missile from a point in the White Sea on September 27, 2005.

The seaborne strategic missile system Bulava can carry at least ten independently targetable nuclear warheads. Its effective radius is at least 8,000 kilometers.