In February 2004 President Putin claimed that the Bulava MIRV warheads could breach any available or potential anti-ballistic missile system. All of this resulted in the first test of the new missile being delayed to 2005, over seven years late to the original schedule. The Typhoon-class SSBN selected for testing the Bulava, the Dmitry Donskoi, had to be heavily modified to Project 941UM standard. The Yuri Dolgoruky, already in construction, had to be redesigned. That missile was cancelled and the Moscow Heat Engineering Institute was ordered to develop a new missile, the Bulava, in its place. However the new solid-propellant ballistic missile failed in all three of its initial development tests in the late 1990's. The keel of the first Project 955 submarine, the Yuri Dolgoruky, was laid down at the Severodvinsk Nuclear Shipbuilding Centre in Arkhangelsk in 1996, and was to have entered service in 2001, replacing earlier Project 941 Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarines equipped with R-39 missiles. Originally a different new solid-propellant missile was developed to that would fit in the existing R-39 missile tubes of the Typhoon-class submarines. ![]() Twelve Bulava missiles were to be installed in each of six of the new Mark 955 Borei-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines.ĭevelopment of the Bulava missile began in 1999. The first post-Soviet Russian ballistic missile, it was designed to provide Russia's submarine-launched deterrent by the third decade of the 21st Century.ĪKA: 3M30 D-19M Mace R-30 RSM-56 SS-NX-30. Russian solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with up to ten multiple independently targeted warheads.
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