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Next Bulava launch ”no earlier than November”

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Test-launch of a Bulava missile from the White Sea.

This year’s second test launch of the Bulava missile will take place “no earlier than November”, leader of the Russian General Staff says.

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As previously reported, this year’s first test launch of the hi-tech missile was successfully conducted on 7 October. The second launch was first reported to take place in late October, but has now been postponed, RIA Novosti reports.

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-The second launch of the maritime ballistic missile Bulava will take place no earlier than November, Head of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov said in a session in the State Duma this week.

If also the second Bulava launch is conducted successfully, the planned third test launch this year could be conducted from the submarine “Yury Dolgoruky”, the first of Russia’s fourth generation strategic Borey-class subs.

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