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Russian missile failed during test, researchers and imagery indicate
Al Arabiya ^
| 9/23/2024
| Reuters
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.
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To: marcusmaximus
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posted on
09/23/2024 7:42:02 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: know.your.why
Detonated in the silo. That cant be good!
22
posted on
09/23/2024 7:43:33 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: Paal Gulli
No. At least four different incidents:
1. Drone strike at Toropets.
2. Drone strike at Oktyabrsky. Maybe Satan-2 missile destroyed.
3. Drone strike at Tikhoretsk.
4. Satan-2 blows up at Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
To: Who is John Galt?
24
posted on
09/23/2024 8:00:23 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
To: Paal Gulli
Which begs the question(s), might the Plesetsk explosion also have been a Ukrainian drone, or might the Ukrainians have ‘played’ the Daily Mail?I don't see a drone having the punch to do that kind of damage to a nuclear hardened site. No way.
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posted on
09/23/2024 8:15:06 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Paal Gulli
Which begs the question(s), might the Plesetsk explosion also have been a Ukrainian drone, or might the Ukrainians have ‘played’ the Daily Mail?I don't see a drone having the punch to do that kind of damage to a nuclear hardened site. No way.
26
posted on
09/23/2024 8:15:06 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: marcusmaximus
Have the bumbling Russian orcs left the Ukrainian shire?(including Crimea)
Answer: Nope, looks like they’re staying a bit longer.
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posted on
09/23/2024 9:05:46 AM PDT
by
unclebankster
(Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
To: Timber Rattler
It blowed up real good ...
28
posted on
09/23/2024 9:08:41 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Even the concrete is gone.................. Covered with dirt. The dirt that was where the big hole is, is now spread around the surrounding area.
29
posted on
09/23/2024 9:11:04 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
OK, on second examination some of the pavement IS gone.
30
posted on
09/23/2024 9:13:06 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
So are some buildings................
31
posted on
09/23/2024 9:16:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Liquid fueled; probably 50-50 and Nitrogen Tetroxide.
32
posted on
09/23/2024 9:33:14 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: marcusmaximus
Israel Putters into Crisis, + Zelensky Arrives at Final Curtain Call While Ukraine scored some big moral victories, no doubt planned for a long time with a lot of saved up fancy drones to coincide with Zelensky’s big US victory tour to conclude the war, Russia has now activated a number of advances, marking today in particular as the single most successful day of arguably the whole year, in terms of pure number of captures.
Literally on every single front Russia captured major territory today in what’s looking more and more like the beginning of that collapse Arestovich gloomily predicted last time. There were captures in Rabotino, Ugledar, Krasnoyarsk, Pokrovsk-Ukrainsk region, Toretsk, Klescheyevka-Chasov Yar, all the way up to Makeevka toward the Kupyansk zone.
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posted on
09/23/2024 10:08:45 AM PDT
by
Kazan
To: Kazan
While Ukraine scored some big moral victories, It must really chafe you hard having to finally admit the obvious.
34
posted on
09/23/2024 10:20:10 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
To: South Dakota
That was the 1st thing I thot of. Someone stuck a Black Cat in the dirt.
This is a man sized fire cracker so you kids stand back. Conehead still holds the record, but thats just because this thing detonated inside the silo.
35
posted on
09/23/2024 11:05:49 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: Delta 21
Conehead?
Well said and totally lol
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posted on
09/23/2024 11:20:01 AM PDT
by
South Dakota
(Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
To: Timber Rattler; Kazan
It must really chafe you hard having to finally admit the obvious. The Miniconjou Lakota and the Hunkpapa Lakota scored a huge moral victory over the US Army at Wounded Knee.
That's pretty obvious.
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posted on
09/23/2024 2:06:36 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
To: Timber Rattler; Kazan; Allegra
How it's hanging over in the GOP Briefing Room?
Say "hey" to Sits On Bears for us.
38
posted on
09/23/2024 2:09:48 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
09/23/2024 2:12:17 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: kiryandil
40
posted on
09/23/2024 2:25:12 PM PDT
by
Allegra
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