Russian missile failed during test, researchers and imagery indicate

Al Arabiya ^ | 9/23/2024 | Reuters

[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.

[Delta 21]

[Delta 21]

Detonated in the silo. That cant be good!

[Chad_the_Impaler]

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.

[PLMerite]

That.is.soooo.wrong.

[pfflier]

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.

[pfflier]

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.

[unclebankster]

Have the bumbling Russian orcs left the Ukrainian shire?(including Crimea)

Answer: Nope, looks like they’re staying a bit longer.

[NorthMountain]

It blowed up real good ...

[NorthMountain]

Even the concrete is gone..................

Covered with dirt. The dirt that was where the big hole is, is now spread around the surrounding area.

[NorthMountain]

OK, on second examination some of the pavement IS gone.

[Red Badger]

So are some buildings................

[NorthMountain]

Liquid fueled; probably 50-50 and Nitrogen Tetroxide.

[Kazan]

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.

[Timber Rattler]

While Ukraine scored some big moral victories,

It must really chafe you hard having to finally admit the obvious.

[Delta 21]

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.

[South Dakota]

Conehead?

Well said and totally lol

[kiryandil]

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.

[kiryandil]

How it's hanging over in the GOP Briefing Room?

Say "hey" to Sits On Bears for us.  

[Magnum44]

[Allegra]