Posted on 06/24/2022 8:40:35 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russian missile U turns and smashes into troops who fired it in malfunction. Russian missile U turns and smashes into troops who fired it in malfunction
Video has emerged of one rogue Russian air defense missile from a volley launched in the Luhansk region turning 180 degrees in mid air to smash into almost the exact location from where it was launched.
The video was reported to be filmed in the early hours this morning near the town of Alchevsk, about 55 miles south of Severodonetsk, where the fiercest fighting has been raging.
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.
Ukraine has had substantial success throughout the three month war employing loitering drones - notably the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone - to strike targets, something Russia's much-vaunted anti-aircraft missile systems have struggled to eliminate.
But Russia has been having far greater success with its concentrated artillery barrages, utilizing them to slowly push Ukrainian positions in Severodonetsk back at the cost of virtually razing the city to the ground.
In response, Ukraine has now received, high-precision artillery missile systems from the West as their own artillery runs out of ammunition.
The largest quantity of military systems and other aid has come from the United States, which announced it is sending another fresh armaments, including four HIMARS rocket systems.
The systems can simultaneously launch multiple precision missiles at an extended range of 50 miles, and provide a capability that Ukraine is sorely lacking in the raging battlefields around Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the east.
Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, tweeted yesterday: 'HIMARS have arrived to Ukraine.
Thank you to US Defense for these powerful tools! Summer will be hot for Russian occupiers. And the last one for some of them.'
I’m glad you are entertained :)
It’s just another fake propaganda piece. Congrats. /s
Go ahead: Discuss how the impact makes the headline demonstrably false since you’re obviously defensive.
I’m easily entertained.
LOL
Please con’t to enjoy yourself!
Have a great day :D
Well, that was more disappointing than the 1/6 theater.
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