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New Russian Ballistic Missile Fails
AP ^
| 10/25/6
Posted on 10/25/2006 8:28:21 AM PDT by SmithL
An experimental Russian ballistic missile veered off its course shortly after having been launched from a Russian nuclear submarine and fell into the sea Wednesday, officials said, its second launch failure in as many months that signals serious problems with the nation's much-lauded new weapon.
The Bulava missile was launched from the Dmitry Donskoy nuclear submarine in the White Sea toward a testing range on the fareastern Kamchatka Peninsula, but it veered off its designated flight path and fell into the sea, the navy said in a statement.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:28:22 AM PDT
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SmithL
To: Doohickey; judicial meanz; submarinerswife; PogySailor; chasio649; gobucks; Bottom_Gun; Dog Gone; ..
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:29:10 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
To: SmithL
And people say there's no good news.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:29:53 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
Perhaps it's tiny tuning fork guidance system failed...
To: freebird5850
They have neither the engineering nor materials to advance their technology at the rate necessary to avoid these failures.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:33:12 AM PDT
by
Abesome
To: SmithL; Doohickey
Technically, the missile did fell successfully, cause if it felled unsuccessfully, it would have gotten stuck up there.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:33:25 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Steely Tom
That has to be the winner for esoteric reference of the week.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:33:48 AM PDT
by
MediaMole
(9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
To: MediaMole
Yeah, but I was confident a Freeper would decode it.
To: Abesome
"They have neither the engineering nor materials to advance their technology at the rate necessary to avoid these failures."
All their engineers are in Israel.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:38:28 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Obama in 08!!)
To: SmithL
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:40:08 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: SmithL
Using storren North Korean technoragy, no doubt...........
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:43:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(CONGRESS NEEDS TO BE DE-FOLEY-ATED...............................)
To: SmithL
In a related story, Bill Clinton has boarded a plane for Moscow with secret missle schematics.
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:47:12 AM PDT
by
HeadOn
(Pro Deo, Pro Familia, Pro Patria)
To: Red Badger
To: SmithL
It's those overworked commie cells. No wonder they couldn't get it up!
To: SmithL
As they say in southern russia, "Shitski, y'all!"
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:49:52 AM PDT
by
gorush
(Exterminate the Moops!)
To: SmithL
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posted on
10/25/2006 8:51:32 AM PDT
by
sono
("Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards." Samuel Huntington)
To: SmithL
An experimental Russian ballistic missile veered off its course shortly after having been launched from a Russian nuclear submarine...Eee-merr-gen-cee... Everybody to get from street.
To: SmithL
I think this is the second time its fails in 4 months. Bwhahaha.
To: Darth Republican
We are of course, Norwegians!
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posted on
10/25/2006 9:08:35 AM PDT
by
Mat_Helm
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