Russia’s new missile fails again in test launch Much-lauded experimental missile designed to carry six nuclear warheads
Updated: 12:18 p.m. ET Oct 25, 2006
MOSCOW - 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 in its second consecutive launch failure in as many months, officials said.
The Bulava missile was launched from the Dmitry Donskoy nuclear submarine underwater in the White Sea toward a testing range on the far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, but it veered off its designated flight path minutes after the liftoff. The missile self-liquidated and its fragments fell into the sea, the navy said in a statement.
The botched launch signaled serious problems with the much-lauded Bulava.
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