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Bulava Ballistic Missile
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This submarine launched ballistic missile is well known by military enthusiasts. But it gained more famous these days, it said to be the primarly cause of spiral light on the northern sky of Norway. Russian official confirmed that the phenomenon is merely the sight of Bulava rocket engine failure on its launch test in white sea. Strangely Russian said nothing about it on the previous day, when a lot of speculations about that "UFO" sighting on December 9, 2009. Bulava is desinated as RSM-56 by Russian and as SS-NX-30 by NATO. Bulava means "mace". This paper model use 1/72 scale.

The Bulava (Russian: ??????, lit. "mace") is a submarine-launched ballistic missile under development in Russia. The Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology is chiefly responsible for the missile's design. Bulava carries the NATO reporting name SS-NX-30 and has been assigned the GRAU index 3M30. In international treaties, the common designation RSM-56 is used.

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The Bulava design is based on the Topol M, but is both lighter and more sophisticated. The two missiles are expected to have comparable ranges, and similar CEP and warhead configurations.

The Russian military developed Bulava to possess advanced defense capabilities making it resistant to missile-defense systems. Among its claimed abilities are evasive maneuvering, mid-course countermeasures and decoys and a warhead fully shielded against both physical and Electromagnetic pulse damage. The Bulava is designed to be capable of surviving a nuclear blast at a minimum distance of 500 meters.[3] Prime minister Vladimir Putin has claimed that Bulava could penetrate any potential anti-missile defence system.

The Bulava is planned to carry up to 6 MIRV warheads with a yield of 150 kT each. A full-capacity payload requires the forfeiture of all final stage countermeasures and of some shielding.

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