will the Captain of the submarine or crew will be demoted , repremanded or transferred after failed mission ?

Nah, Russia is a democracy now, he will just spend the rest f his life on a tugboat on the Yenisei… 😀
Seriously, of course not.
And we don’t know, apart from some Interfax anonymous dribble (this agency is becoming more and more idiotic by the day – I still remember when they “found” S-200 and Tors in Georgia), if this mission will be considered a failure or a success, just because we don’t know what the mission was.

And apparently, the US did detect the boats, and afterwards lost them totally (i.e. declared they sailed north, no, south, no, one south the other to make a port call in Cuba – now it appears that both of them are in the Atlantic and are looking for the ghost named Arctic Sea).

During the Cold War, Russian subs were routinely detected and tracked by NATO ASW forces. No one was reprimanded because of that, except when it was a boomer, of course 😉

And several times, the boat actually had the mission to get detected first and then disappear – which was good and/or bad for Soviet and NATO crew morales, respectively, and demonstrated fighting capabilities/provided real-life combat training an undetected sub would of course not get (famous examples include the Aport and Atrina exercises, where the Sov. subs did exactly that).

Alternatively, getting undetected and close to NATO boomer or within weapons range inside a carrier group ASW envelope routinely meant that the CO could drill a smart new hole in his dress uniform jacket, in expectation of a new Red Star or equivalent order. Same today (even if the don’t award the O. of the Red Star anymore 😀 ).

Has to be the worst SLBM the USSR/Russia has ever made

Let us put emotionality away for a while and consider this:

R-39 (RSM-52) (the monstrous Typhoon-based solid fuel thing):
FIRST 10 TEST LAUNCHES
28.12.80 – failure- wrong cable connection;
04.04.80 – failure- valve error
17.06.80 – failure- main power output cable system failure,
03.10.80 – failure- 2nd stage power cable system failure,
03.12.80 – failure- flight control system failure during 1st stage boost phase
27.12.80 – success
27.01.81 – partial success – MIRV insertion error, MIRV not found
01.04.81 – failure- exploded at 2nd stage ignition
22.04.81 – failure- wrong trajectory during boost phase, self-destruction
27.11.81 – partial success – MIRV insertion error, MIRV not found

All in all, more than half of the 17 phase 1 tests were failures.
After correction, failure causes detection, a phase 2 series was launched directly from the sub. 13 launches, 2 failures.

The road “from the R-29 to Sineva” was also paved with failures galore.

…though it’s certainly preferable being overt rather than covert, as if IAI has full knowledge then at least they’re not going to be surprised.

The Israelis are not going to be surprised anyway.
They know that Russia is a captive market, they know that military U(C)AVs manufactured there are required to be of national origin etc. So the Israelis are not losing a market here, because the market is captive.
On the other hand, they can (and certainly have) press the Russian side to sign agreements preventing any sale of future Russian-made Israeli-based U(C)AVs to foreign parties, or even negotiate a freeze on the sale of other (critical for Israel, non-critical for Russia) hardware to Israel-unfriendly parties.
It’s a win-win situation, IMHO.

The Yuri Dolgoruki SSBN set sail today for the first time (sea trials).
Godspeed, I may say.
First pictures (from the airbase.ru forums – 2 from 3 showed here) :

Another one: http://balancer.ru/forum/punbb/attachment.php?item=159712&download=1
And another one:

So much for those who complained about “Delta-like humps” etc.
Quite a nice and streamlined boat, I’d say.

I would like to ask hw viable could be if Bulava takes time fixing to arm 1 or two Typhoons with SINEVAs.

If anything, the remaining Typhoons will become cruise-missile launchers. If the MoD decides against it, they will be scrapped. No way Sineva will be fitted into them.

It seems to have a good throw weight and range,better than Bulavas.

It’s probably the best strategic missile in the world in terms of throw weight/mass/size/range. But the Bulava has other very important advantages (e.g. speedy boost phase), along with maintenance issues (much less demanding).

A quote from Janes:”Bulava’s in-water performance (it is launched from an inclined launch tube rather than a vertical one as in earlier SLBM designs”

Journalistic BS.

Isnt 8000km a little short?

8000 km is with max loadout. Look at the latest French SLBMs, it’s the same paradigm: 8K or so kms with max loadout, 12K with single or 2 warheads. The mix is getting much easier to implement wisely since the arms reduction treaties.

That’s quite an incentive for Gates to buy Gripens NG, or some Su-35 at least, instead of these antique F-35 😀
Seriously, just a power output/time-range-to-target manoeuver envelope should show that this is bogus. Even against an unarmed Su-35BM.

Besides, the 35BM will basically feature the same ECM suite as the Su-34, and even the Foxhound didn’t manage to crudely burn through the Fullback’s electronic defenses till it was 10km close (it could have acquired it by other means, of course – the modelisation was of an “unknowing/unfriendly” radar system).

I’ve got 2 hypotheses here:
1) Saab is totally desperate to sell at least some Gripens in any kind of way. It already got so much ready-to-use “old” Gripen airframes in storage (fact) that it even offered the Swiss free spares and maintenance for all the airframe lifetime if they buy some (not NGs, of course)
2) they modelled the fight sim on the “old” Su-35, and without heat-seeking missiles.
3) The Lightning II is a total peace of crap (which is of course not true) and stealth does not have any impact on anything (maybe true in a Swedish physical world 😀 ).

Finally, I find it very touching that Saab is able to model a fight between a Swedish fighter that exists only virtually and a Russian fighter whose ECM and weapon systems are still not finalised even by its own builders 😀