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2004-02-17

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-02-17 12:08:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At least Putin didn't order the launch to continue.... at least one of his predesessors did, killed a heap of engineers in the explosion.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-17 12:38:07 PM|| 2004-2-17 12:38:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 lol, the russian military just seems to be going from bad to worse.... what a shame eh

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-17 12:57:30 PM|| 2004-2-17 12:57:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Disregard my last it was the Russian headman it was the head of the Strategic Rocket Forces:

Marshal Nedelin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, ordered the engineers and technicians to fix the problem without the long delay of defuelling and refurbishing the missile. He personally had a deck chair brought out to the pad from Astronauticx.com

He croaked in the accident.
I believe Haliburton may have been a subcontractor at Baikaur.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-17 1:00:19 PM|| 2004-2-17 1:00:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The big boss comes to watch a launch, the press is on hand, push the button and ...nothing. Game of "pass the buck" begins, last man standing pulls point in Chechenville.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-17 1:36:02 PM|| 2004-2-17 1:36:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Their combat aviation is also in shambles, according to Janes.

A Russia in total chaos is Not A Good Thing. Where there is no work for weapons specialists, pilots etc. there is a void that will be filled in ways we won't like, I suspect.

Posted by rkb 2004-2-17 4:00:54 PM|| 2004-2-17 4:00:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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