Posted on 01/16/2020 7:23:51 PM PST by Rabin
Didn’t something like this happen back in the early 1960s when a rocket exploded killing or burning lots of Soviet scientists? If I remember, their rockets were supposed to be so safe you could be within a few yards of one of them lighting off.
I remember seeing film released after the fall of the USSR of burning scientists running from the fire.
This cause the USSR to renegotiate a nuclear pact with the usa.
I bet They forgot to update Windows and Chrome before the launch ...
I am not expert on this, but I believe the Russki’s still use liquid rocket fuel vs solid propellant like we do in the West.
Liquid fuels can be dangerous as they are typically less stable (or more volatile) and are more prone to vapor ignition than solid fuel (produces no vapor).
I am sure we have some folks on here that know much more than I do about this, but I remember long ago (during the cold war) reading that many or most of the Russian ICBM’s would require fueling prior to launch delaying their response time. On top of that, they had a reputation as being far less reliable than our ICBM’s for this reason. In typical Russian fashion they simply had more of them to account for any launch failures (or accidental explosions?).
Glad I am not sitting in a silo over there!
There was also another article long ago that was talking about the toxicity and prevalence of cancer among conscripts who worked with their rockets and around the fuels. Could be another wives tale, but it would not surprise me.
The culprits are always the same. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and American Imperialism. If not for those then Russia would be a paradise.
Yup. Russia is Mexico with nukes.
He blowed up real good!
I’ve seen that film, pretty rough to watch. Poor bastards
Not sure if that was a test nuke missile or part of
Their space program., it may have been the set back
That told them they weren’t going to the moon.
Of a type of hypersonic most likely.
On August 8, Russia's Ministry of Defense reported that the explosion at the test site in the Arkhangelsk region occurred during the tests of a liquid-propellant jet engine....the explosion occurred during the test of a rocket with a radioisotope element in the engine. "The tests were held on the offshore platform. After the tests were completed, the rocket fuel ignited, and an explosion followed," the department said.
#3 they lit the fuse and did not run fast enough.
Thanks...I remember that, but didn’t look it up.
In a perverse way I can celebrate their deaths before the Russian Military celebrates killing America’s or an American City.
As kids, these scientists obviously were not allowed to play with real fireworks...................
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