{"id":199170,"date":"2007-08-30T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/bulava-missile-not-ready-for-mass-production-missiles-and-bombs-defense-news-air-force-army-navy-news\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:07:00","slug":"bulava-missile-not-ready-for-mass-production-missiles-and-bombs-defense-news-air-force-army-navy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/bulava-missile-not-ready-for-mass-production-missiles-and-bombs-defense-news-air-force-army-navy-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulava Missile Not Ready For Mass Production : Missiles and Bombs : Defense News Air Force Army Navy News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that there is some misunderstanding about Russian weapons development, as shown by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/missiles\/Bulava_Missile_Not_Ready_For_Mass_Production160013126.php\">following story about the failures in the Bulava-MLBM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The missile has failed 4 of its first 6 test flights, but this means something very different than it would in a US missile development program. <\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the Soviets, and later the Russians, use missile tests to find design flaws and verify performance, while the western nations typically use tests to verify theoretical analysis.<\/p>\n<p>While the testing protocol is different from previous Russian SLBMs, there have been no ground tests, as it is an adaptation of a ground based system, the test-fail-fix strategy continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that there is some misunderstanding about Russian weapons development, as shown by the following story about the failures in the Bulava-MLBM. The missile has failed 4 of its first 6 test flights, but this means something very different than it would in a US missile development program. Simply put, the Soviets, and later &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199170"}],"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=199170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}