The Devil is in the details....
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Details:
Much of the missile funding was likely stolen;
Missile uses Western chips no longer available, so local chips substituted;
Sheer incompetence.
Good news:
Many of Russia’s leading missile experts likely killed in explosion that destroyed the observation platform;
Is replacement for the RS-36 whose fuel was made in Ukraine
Sounds like what he needed was someone with the smarts to build a second, and maybe a third launch facility. What happened to good old Soviet -era redundancy?