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.'
Russian missile U turns and smashes into troops who fired it in malfunction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3bPicobEFs
They shouldn’t have bought from the Acme Missile Company.
Saw that in a cartoon once...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Jun 24, 2022
When Russian troops abandoned a BTR-82A armored personnel carrier, they dropped a grenade inside to render it unusable. Or so they thought. A Ukrainian soldier explains how they repaired the damage to put the APC back into the fight on their side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NcHDTfaRQ
The Roadrunner Zelenski heard to beep in delight
Hate it when that happens.
Didn’t you post this once already today, albeit from a different source?
I think of the Russians as a pretty intelligent people, but this war is really calling that assumption into question.
Video game.
My bad, it was the other Uke, https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4073639/posts
US WWII Mk 14 torpedoes were famous for doing that if the gyro was mounted in backwards, which was easily done. Weapons these days have an anticircular attack feature which shuts the weapon down if it steers too far off its set course.
This is a different camera angle of the same event.
You can see it didn’t hit the launcher, I don’t know if there were people where it landed
https://nitter.net/Osinttechnical/status/1540196674013904897#m
What is this, your 9th propaganda post of the day? Pootie Poot is living rent free in your empty head. Go light another candle in your Zelensky shrine and go to bed.
Oh, that’s too bad. {...sips coffee....}
I have my doubts about the video. The rocket heads up and out in silence, then does a u-turn, abruptly accelerates and only then makes a loud rocket-type roar, before hitting the ground.
It could be the angles involved that give those impressions, but the whole thing is sus.
Telemetry is fun
1- Ukrainian artillery blow up multiple Russian rocket launchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SR8y632KKQ
Jun 20, 2022
DRAMATIC moment Ukrainian artillery blow up multiple Russian rocket launcher vehicles.
The footage, which appears to have been shot from a drone, shows what appear to be four multiple rocket launcher vehicles being targeted and destroyed, with the Ukrainian General Staff saying that they had hit “multiple rocket launchers”.
A black cloud of smoke rises into the air as the site is systematically hit with what Ukrainian forces said was artillery fire.
2- HUGE Russian bomb is removed from apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lX-KS3Im4
Jun 24, 2022
No, maybe someone else did. Video is on multiple sites.
i wonder if some dummy dint put their own co-ords into the the target...
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