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Photo: Launch of SLBM Bulava.
Test launch of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) Bulava can be postponed due to weather conditions, but it will be held till May 2012 anyway, said Russian defense minister Anatoly Serdiukov at press conference on Nov 18.
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SLBM Bulava Could Be Launched in Spring 2012
18.11.2011
Earlier on, a high-ranking representative of defense industry told to RIA Novosti that last in 2011 test launch of the newest SLBM Bulava would be performed in Nov 2011 by standard platform – Project 955 SSBN Yury Dolgoruky. It is expected to be a salvo launch, i.e. at least two missiles would leave the submarine's launching tubes at once.
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