Posted on 09/23/2024 6:50:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A Russian RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile likely failed during a test earlier this month, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.
Maxar satellite images from Sept. 21 show a crater about 60 meters (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia and damage around the area that was not visible in imagery from earlier in the month.
It was not clear from the imagery if the liquid-fueled Sarmat failed during a launch or if there was an accident during defueling.
“By all indications, it was a failed test. It’s a big hole in the ground,” said Pavel Podvig, an analyst based in Geneva, who runs the Russian Nuclear Forces project.
“There was a serious incident with the missile and the silo.”
Russia’s defense ministry did not respond to a request for comment and has made no announcements about planned Sarmat tests in recent days.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
Maybe THAT was the ‘test’..................
BEFORE:
AFTER:
So about all the Russian nuclear saber rattling that's going on...
Not the photo op Putin was planning before today’s start of the UN General Assembly today.
Notice all the trees are gone...................
Exactly, which was what he was hoping for. Seems that Putin can’t get any of his strategic nuclear missiles to work anymore. The all blow up during or immediately after launch.
Must have been a huge fireball.
Gee, thats odd. It’s like there is something going on with some of the parts they are using. Funny how stuff like that happens.
Even the concrete is gone..................
Two U.S. spy planes were watching the test. Our crews must have been laughing their tails off on the way back to base.
And I thought an M-80 packed a punch.
Putin better call Hillary for more missile technology
Is this actually worth two separate posts .
Four separate posts.
Five separate posts.
Because that cookie ain’t gonna cover itself.
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It is a pity that Putin did not go to witness this great event.
The UK Daily Mail is reporting a similar incident, the explosion of a “Satan-2” missile, but they’re claiming this was in a different location (Toropets, Tver Oblast, Russia), and it was caused by a Ukrainian “kamikaze” drone.
Which begs the question(s), might the Plesetsk explosion also have been a Ukrainian drone, or might the Ukrainians have ‘played’ the Daily Mail?
Or both.
Or neither.
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