Return to sender! Russian surface-to-air missile does a U-TURN and smashes into the troops who fired it in spectacular malfunction

Daily Mail ^ | 6/24/2022 | Walter Finch

[marcusmaximus]

Video at link.

[BillyBonebrake]

Acme Products

[LIConFem]

Made in Australia?

[fruser1]

Looks like the Russians have their own version of H1B visas doing what should be home grown work.

[marcusmaximus]

When his hands weren’t shaking, Putin was giving lots of love to India on his BRICS summit video conference today.

[crusty old prospector]

Dang that roadrunner. .

[bleach]

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department!” says Wernher von Braun.

Tom Lehrer

[doorgunner69]

That missile was pulling some G’s to make that turn.

[Chode]

surface to air, why do i doubt that...

the pics/video show at least two smoke trails before it’s launch

so they fired three at unknown aircraft, two misses and one return to sender all while on video, anticipating launch, to an unexpected aircraft attack, is that it?

using them as surface to surface maybe?

[marcusmaximus]

Surface to surface is how they’re being used in a lot of places by the Russians.

[Deaf Smith]

That “bright cascade” was not “sparks”, as reported.

[SkyDancer]

Whoo! Karma!

[RatRipper]

Did not know Wile E Coyote was in the Russian Army. . . .

[kosciusko51]

I see what you did there. 😀

[beethovenfan]

That probably ruined somebody’s whole day.

[pfflier]

Nope, mostly propellant. Aluminum powder and ammonium perchlorate. Burns bright.

[exnavy]

We had that happen in 1977 with an SM 1 we were very lucky the missle went approx a half mile down range went subsurface returned airborn went subsurface again than popit was finished.

[V_TWIN]

[throwthebumsout]

Did someone accidently swap the “Source” and “Destination” coordinates?

[aMorePerfectUnion]