Comments on: Bulava Fails Latest Test – Lessons for US? http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/12/23/bulava-fails-latest-test-lessons-for-us Looking for clues at the scene of the crime Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steeljawscribe http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/12/23/bulava-fails-latest-test-lessons-for-us/comment-page-1#comment-5214 Steeljawscribe Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:23:40 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1888#comment-5214 Bob: I think there are several factors here -- beginning with a false premise on the part of the Moscow Thermodynamics Institute that they could shoehorn a land-based missile design into an SLBM form factor with little in the way of design changes. Fold-in questionable QC in manufacture or material, pressure from higher up to perform and you have all the ingredients necessary for continued spectacular failures. w/r, SJS Bob:

I think there are several factors here — beginning with a false premise on the part of the Moscow Thermodynamics Institute that they could shoehorn a land-based missile design into an SLBM form factor with little in the way of design changes. Fold-in questionable QC in manufacture or material, pressure from higher up to perform and you have all the ingredients necessary for continued spectacular failures.
w/r, SJS

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]]> By: Bob Melley http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/12/23/bulava-fails-latest-test-lessons-for-us/comment-page-1#comment-5213 Bob Melley Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:13:05 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1888#comment-5213 SJS..........Looking at the Bulava missile test failures, I don't see its just a QC issue.....There have been too many failures to date to blame QC as the main cause.....So if the Russians have "new" SSBN and no working missiles for her, who is to blame? Russia has been promising lots of new ships, aircraft et al.....who will build them? Ukraine is out of the picture......Russia, like China, is into self dillusion about a lot of military issues.....writing about the US coming apart at the seams is a might premature, we survived Jimmy Carter, so we'll survive Barack Hussein Soweto Obama. SJS……….Looking at the Bulava missile test failures, I don’t see its just a QC issue…..There have been too many failures to date to blame QC as the main cause…..So if the Russians have “new” SSBN and no working missiles for her, who is to blame? Russia has been promising lots of new ships, aircraft et al…..who will build them? Ukraine is out of the picture……Russia, like China, is into self dillusion about a lot of military issues…..writing about the US coming apart at the seams is a might premature, we survived Jimmy Carter, so we’ll survive Barack Hussein Soweto Obama.

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