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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

Posted on 06/24/2022 12:24:34 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: Falcon4.0

It looks that way.


41 posted on 06/24/2022 1:48:41 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: silverleaf

I would expect nothing less from a Gaytheon missile launch in SA.

If it was during Pride month, it would be even more meaningful.

I wonder what the missiles pronouns were?


42 posted on 06/24/2022 1:56:05 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: marcusmaximus

Dang...

...Ya hate to see it.


43 posted on 06/24/2022 1:57:56 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: marcusmaximus

Bought from Wileyski Coyoteski Armaments.


44 posted on 06/24/2022 2:07:08 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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45 posted on 06/24/2022 2:17:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: marcusmaximus

Return to sender, address unknown
No such number, no such zone


46 posted on 06/24/2022 2:18:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marcusmaximus

People have a depth perception problem the middle did malfunction but did not hit the person who fired it. That hit the ground much closer to the camera then where it launched from….

Nowhere near the actual launch location


47 posted on 06/24/2022 2:24:44 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Chode

Your doubts are well-founded
S-300’s are launched in pairs not 3’s
Russia is regularly destroying Ukrainian S-300 systems
being provided by 3d countries and has no shortage
of accurate missiles used to take out weapons depot, fuel,
troop concentrations and recently, high level military planners


48 posted on 06/24/2022 2:29:51 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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49 posted on 06/24/2022 2:46:31 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: silverleaf

not to mention if they were using them as StA, then all of them missed!

proof being no footage of hits or as to their inaccuracy, which


50 posted on 06/24/2022 2:55:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: bleach

Don’t forget his autobiography.

I aim at the stars (but sometimes I hit London)


51 posted on 06/24/2022 3:36:18 PM PDT by sloanrb
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To: silverleaf

Oh yes! Now here’s a GOOD source! They deny the holocaust! Treblinka was a hoax according to the guy claiming this FORESTED region is “Saudi Arabia.”

Good Lord, you pigs will DO ANYTHING to uphold that despotic murderer.


52 posted on 06/24/2022 3:51:27 PM PDT by Vaden (CAUTION: Defending Putin=Defending Hitler=MAGA Destruction)
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To: Falcon4.0

Return to sender
Address unknown
No such number
No such zone.😏


53 posted on 06/24/2022 4:43:10 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: dfwgator

Aww you beat me to it.😜


54 posted on 06/24/2022 4:43:47 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: silverleaf

Wrong, not fake news. This Russian missile U turns and smashes into troops who fired it in malfunction.

A similar incident occurred in Saudi Arabia in 2018, when a US-made Patriot air defense missile fired to intercept ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi militia malfunctioned, turning around and crashing into a residential area of northeastern Riyadh.


55 posted on 06/24/2022 9:19:42 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (et, so p )
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To: silverleaf

Yes, this rogue Russian missile U turned 24-06-2022!

Reports indicate that the air defense missile system - possibly an S300 - was operated by Ukrainian pro-Russian separatists from the breakaway Luhansk People’s Republic.

The cause of the malfunction is not clear, with some speculating that it may be due to hacking or jamming by a loitering Ukrainian drone, although this is considered unlikely.

The video shows the missile creating a large explosion on impact and showering the surrounding area in a bright cascade of sparks, thought to be caused by the missile’s fuel exploding having not been spent on its flight. According to local media reports, a fire erupted from the site not far from residential buildings. There were no reports on casualties suffered by Russian and separatist forces in the mishap.

A similar incident occurred in Saudi Arabia in 2018, when a US-made Patriot air defence missile fired to intercept ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi militia malfunctioned, turning around and crashing into a residential area of northeastern Riyadh.


56 posted on 06/24/2022 9:22:52 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (et, so p )
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To: marcusmaximus
#28, #30. Can you PM any sources for Russian SAMS used in surface mode in Ukraine? This is new to me.

The S-400 has a surface-to-surface mode (link, Link. The early Nike Hercules and Houthi rebel modified S-75 Dvina/SA-2 Guideline had surface-to-surface mode. Using SAMS this way is not new if there is nothing else to use and the means to modify the missiles are available.

I am guessing that for the S-300/400 in surface-to-surface mode uses either inertial guidance, radar guided to vertical drop, or combination. The S-400 can be used on exposed troops or unarmored vehicles. Considering all the all the field and rocket artillery Russia has, the only reason to use SAMS this way on Odessa and Nikolaev is to target the civilan population (Like the pro-Russia people say Ukraine is, because Russia would never do that).

57 posted on 06/24/2022 10:15:47 PM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Well. THAT went spectacularly wrong, didn’t it?


58 posted on 06/25/2022 8:25:50 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Daily Mail is using the same video that was posted on Bitchute.
As I noted.

When the bitchute poster was called out, he admitted this video was old Saudi video and changed the title on Bitchute.

So I do not know what video proof you guys have of a 3- missile (?) sequence S-300 launch gone wrong…but the video from Daily Mail ain’t it.

Most other social media dropped this story when the video fakery was exposed.

Further for anyone following this war there has been exactly “ zero” reports of the S-300 being used as a SSM. However if the Ukes were this desperate to use their S-300’s in this role, exposing the systen location to Russian missile strikes, it probably wouldn’t make the news


59 posted on 06/25/2022 9:35:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Vaden

Are you really calling me a pig for doubting your military analysis?


60 posted on 06/25/2022 9:37:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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