The Russian Ballistic Marine Base Rocket P-30 “Bulava-30”, during the tests, collided with numerous difficulties, in a number of its characteristics is inferior to Western counterparts. The criticism of Russian weapons published American magazine The National Interest.
Edition from the USA writes that the program of the R-30 “Bulava-30” after the failures of the 2000s “returned to the right direction” only in 2010, when a successful launch of a rocket with a submarine TK-208 “Dmitry Donskoy” was performed . Nevertheless, the test conducted in 2013 turned out to be unsuccessful by identifying the presence of “production defects”.
Magazine notes that by the range of P-30 “Bulava-30” is comparable to the American rocket UGM-133A Trident II D5, however, “questions remain regarding the accuracy of the Russian missile compared to its Western counterparts.”
The publication reminds that the R-30 “Bulava-30”, which receive submarines of the project 955 “Borea”, should “become the rod of the new nuclear triad of Russia.”
In this way, the National Interest commented on the recent statement of the headquarters of the headquarters of the submarine forces of the Pacific Admiral Arkady Navar, according to which the R-30 “Bulava” is invulnerable for any missile defense systems (pro).
In February 2020, the Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (Raran) on Information Policy, Dr. Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov noted that the R-30 ballistic missile missile R-30 “Bulava-30” Adopted in 2018, and the American UGM-133A Trident II D5, adopted in 1990, are comparable, which cannot be said about throwing weight, which has the second almost 2.5 times more.