Posted on 08/24/2022 3:16:12 PM PDT by DFG
India's Air Force said on Tuesday that it sacked three officers for accidentally firing a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile into neighboring Pakistan in March.
An official inquiry into the mishap "found that deviation from standard operating procedure by three officers led to the accidental firing of the missile," the air force said in a statement, per Reuters.
The BrahMos missile is a nuclear-capable cruise missile developed jointly by Russia and India, with a range of 180 miles and Mach 3 speed capability.
The accident occurred during routine maintenance when a "technical malfunction" caused the missile to fire from the garrison town of Ambala and into Pakistan's Punjab province, the Indian Ministry of Defence said on March 11.
No one was reported injured or killed in the incident.
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At least they didn’t shoot down an airliner
Well, I guess one nice thing is the Pakistanis now know what India was planning to hit with a nuke.
Pakistan didn’t notice.
Hate when that happens.
I hope someone gets at least a month of paid leave.
The punishment here seems a bit harsh. After all, who among us has not accidentally fired a supersonic cruise missile into another country?
Hell, I was just saying to my cousin Wilfred the other day, “Willy, that’s the third supersonic cruise missile you’ve accidentally fired this week. Try to be more careful in the future, okay?”
Nolan Ryan was ‘effectively’ wild.
If it had hit something things could have gotten messy in a hurry.
And now the Pakis can copy it and make their own. Are the Indians sure the launch wasn’t “accidentally on purpose”?
As I recall, just after long range antiship cruise missiles were being installed an American ship in the Bahamas was carrying out a systems test on one. The hardware that connected the launch assembly to the battle bridge had not been installed. So, everything was being done by hand, but some functions were separated so the crew doing the work was not all in the same place. Suddenly, there was a whoosh, and everybody came running to see what had happened. Yep, it launched, and they had no idea where it went. Apparently, it didn’t hit anything.
As weapons get more and more complex, we will see more of these failures.
I’m sure it was an accident...
No poor Abu did
Oh my bloody hell by jeeps!
Good thing there was no nuke. We would be wondering why it got real hot all of a sudden.
Would you call that man made global warming? 🤪
That’s entirely possible. They didn’t notice Bin Laden was there ether. They have priors. 🤨
“Whats that noise?”
OH CRAP!
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