{"id":193267,"date":"2009-01-03T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/03\/russia-increasing-test-launches-of-new-slbm\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T12:48:00","slug":"russia-increasing-test-launches-of-new-slbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/03\/russia-increasing-test-launches-of-new-slbm\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Increasing Test Launches of New SLBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the most recent test failure of the Bulava SLBM, Russia will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/missiles\/Russia_To_Test-Launch_At_Least_5_Bulava_ICBMs_In_2009160016844.php\">increasing the number of test launches for the missile in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They had indented to do 3-4 test launches this year, but now they are committing to at least 5 launches.<\/p>\n<p>They have been 5 for 10 on test launches, which is actually better than SLBM tests during the Soviet days, and this indicates a move back to more extensive testing, which I approve.<\/p>\n<p>In reviewing US missile tests, it appears that there is a panic whenever their is a failure, because the test programs here are now based on the idea that everything will be caught in analysis, and that tests should progress without failures.<\/p>\n<p>This does not work, and results in delays and cost escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the most recent test failure of the Bulava SLBM, Russia will be increasing the number of test launches for the missile in 2009. They had indented to do 3-4 test launches this year, but now they are committing to at least 5 launches. They have been 5 for 10 on test launches, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1180,1161,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missiles","category-naval","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}