Military rocket tests

[EarthlingX]

By Anatoly Zak :

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rockets_slbm.html#2010

2010 Oct. 28: Russian navy launched a pair of R-29-type ballistic missiles. The K-117 Bryansk submarine stationed in the Barents Sea launched an R-29RMU2 Sineva missile at 14:30 Moscow Summer Time toward the Kura impact range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

On the same day, the K-433 Svaytoi Georgy Pobedonosets submarine launched an R-29R missile from a submerged position in the Sea of Okhotsk toward the Chizha impact range on the Kanin Nos Peninsula.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com : Russia launches the 100th Topol missile

Published: 2010 Oct. 29

Russian strategic missile forces, RVSN, conducted the 100th launch of the Topol ICBM from the nation's northern cosmodrome in Plesetsk on Oct. 28, 2010, at 13:59 Moscow Summer Time. The rocket successfully hit its target on the Kamchatka Peninsula 23 minutes after the liftoff, the official military Zvezda TV channel reported. According to an RVSN spokesman, the particular missile was manufactured in 1987 and was operationally deployed in Teikovo missile base until August 2007. Russian military regularly conducts launches of aging missiles to confirm their operational readiness. The latest mission aimed to validate the extension of operational service of the Topol missiles from original 10 years to 23 years.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/bulava.html#14

2010 Oct. 29: The 14th test launch of Russia's Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was a complete success, the official media reported Friday. It was the second in a row successful flight of a previously troubled vehicle. The missile lifted off on Oct. 29, 2010, at 05:10 Moscow Time from Dmitry Donskoy submarine stationed in the submerged position in the White Sea. Several minutes later, multiple warheads from the missile successfully hit their targets at the Kura impact range in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman said. Another test launch of the Bulava missile was scheduled for December of this year, Russian media reported.

News releases :

http://www.prnewswire.com : Japan Achieves Third Ballistic Missile Intercept Using Raytheon Standard Missile-3

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii, Oct. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) achieved its third ballistic missile intercept using a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3.

During Thursday's test, which marked the 18th SM-3 intercept, the SM-3 Block IA missile engaged and destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile target more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

Personnel at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai launched the ballistic missile target. The crew of the JMSDF destroyer, operating off the coast of Kauai, detected and tracked the target before firing the missile.

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[EarthlingX]

www.federalspace.ru : Russia Successfully Tests Bulava in Flight

:: 29.10.2010

The Russian Navy and Army have performed four successful tests of different ballistic missiles, including the new SLBM Bulava missile, in just over a day, RT reported.
The Bulava (Mace) RSM-56 missile was launched from Dmitry Donskoy, an Akula class heavy ballistic missile submarine, at 05:10 Moscow time on Friday, from the White Sea in Russia’s north. Twenty minutes later, having traveled approximately 8,000 kilometers, its hypersonic maneuverable warheads hit targets at Kura shooting ground in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka region.
After a series of previously unsuccessful tests, the production control was toughened and it seems the previous faults were corrected. The new missile from now on will be tested on the submarines for which it was made – fourth generation Borey class ballistic missile submarines.
Bulava missiles are set to be the cornerstone of Russia’s nuclear triad for at least the next 30 years. Armed with six to ten multiple independently targetable supersonic warheads that cannot be intercepted by any known system, the missile can sustain a nuclear blast several hundred meters away.
Experts agree that Bulava’s technical characteristics will guarantee that Russia will reserve its leading position in the world nuclear club well into the middle of the 21st Century.
Now, it is important to strengthen the positive trends in the Bulava testing, thus additional control measures are taken wrt each missile to be tested in flight. The work aimed at enhancing monitoring of technological processes, material production arrangement, will continue, in order to meet the requirements set by the Ministry of Defense.

Administration of the Russian Federal Space Agency appreciates all organizations and entities involved in the project. Руководство Федерального космического агентства выражает признательность коллективам предприятий и организаций, участвующих в реализации данного проекта.

Roscosmos PAO

 

[trailrider]

And how do these new MIRV'd missiles fit in with the new arms reduction treaty signed by President Bush but not yet ratified by the U.S. Senate? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows... :lol: :evil:

 

[stevekk]

All of these are solids, correct ?

 

[EarthlingX]

It's a mix of solid and liquid propellant engines, from Wiki :

R-29 Vysota
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It uses the storable Liquid rocket propellants N2O4/UDMH.

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RT-2PM Topol
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Engine Three-stage solid propellant

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RSM-56 Bulava
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The missile has three stages; the first and second stages use solid fuel propellant, while the third stage liquid fuel, to allow high manouverability during warhead separation.

RIM-161 Standard Missile 3
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Propellant :
Stage1: MK 72 Booster, solid-fuel, Aerojet
Stage2: MK 104 Dual Thrust Rocket Motor (DTRM), solid-fuel, Aerojet
Stage3: MK 136 Third Stage Rocket Motor (TSRM), solid-fuel, ATK
Stage4: Solid Divert and Attitude Control System (SDACS), ATK

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