I hate it when missile launchers go rogue.
Posted on 04/04/2024 7:01:47 AM PDT by McGruff
The National Maritime Authority issued a warning for ships to avoid part of the Great Belt strait due to a risk of "falling missile fragments".
A naval exercise began in the area last March and is due to end on Friday.
In a statement, the Danish military said the problem with the missile occurred "during a mandatory test where the missile launcher is activated and cannot be deactivated."
"Until the missile launcher is deactivated, there is a risk that the missile can fire and fly a few kilometres away," the military added. It provided a map of the area off the coast of the town of Korsor.
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And all these countries want to fight the Russians?
What a clown show.
“In a statement, the Danish military said the problem with the missile occurred “during a mandatory test where the missile launcher is activated and cannot be deactivated.””
Take that Putin!!!! Our missiles are so effective that we don’t need no on-off switch, because WE ARE NATO, and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE !!!
You Russians can be so annoying...
You Russians can be so annoying...
I hate it when missile launchers go rogue.
..And even more annoying
Pull the damn plug!................
“You Russians can be so annoying...”
LOL, but I do make the point, because that was our response for 35 years while the Russians and now Chinese kept modernizing their existing weapons and producing new weapons.
Point being, it’s not a good idea to start a war that you have no chance of winning because you never bothered to take seriously some VERY SERIOUS countries.
I agree that we have long periods where we considered "the Cold War is over (and we won)" and that "the Chinese were going to end up Capitalists.." but our military technologies have advanced despite the reductions of budgets and the silliness of politicians.
I spent a couple of years in the USSR and then the early Russian Federation and the things that impressed me were that their equipment usually worked well in horrible conditions and that there was lots of it.
The parts that didn't impress me were their lousy training, primitive command structure, and lack of concern for their troops (particularly the human factors design of their vehicles). I had the distinct privilege of commanding a Russian infantry company for one week who had been assigned to me during the Humanitarian Aid deliveries in Bishkek (formerly Frunze) Kirghizstan. I found out fairly fast that my troops had never heard of the US Marine Corps, had decent uniforms and personal equipment, and that several of them didn't speak Russian (!). I found that they had the same proportion of hard workers, lazy louts, jokers, smart guys and idiots as a similar American unit. They responded to training and discipline easily and proved to excellent and responsive soldiers.
After that one week, they learned exactly who we Marines were (I brought John Wayne movies) and they all wanted to go home with me at the end of that week. Sadly, their command refused to let them go. I had room on my C-141.
Where our leadership has failed is the acknowledgement of the intensity of insecurity of the Russian soul and their need to constantly and futilely compete with anyone around them. To them, there can't be peace, no matter what. They have to have opponents and they have constantly militated against various adversaries throughout their history (the Swedes, the Poles, the Germans, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Capitalists, the West, and now us).
So, here we go again...
“I spent a couple of years in the USSR and then the early Russian Federation”
Interesting, and good stuff. But I’m sure you know that you there during the absolute worst time for both Russia and their military. I still remember about 20 years ago, Putin said he was cutting the number of troops by half (it was still at Soviet levels) and using the money freed up to “modernize” his military. We yawned (ignored him), so I knew were totally hosed, at that point.
As for the Russians always being aggressive, we sent the boys into Grenada to rescue a few hundred medical school students from a hostile government, modern Russia sent their boys into Ukraine to rescue 10 million Russian speakers also from a now-hostile government. So, we’re not squeaky-clean either.
No, I suspect that we are not squeaky-clean but clarity also helps:
Grenada wasn't really about "rescuing medical students" - it was about eliminating a Soviet/Cuban military staging area for supplying/manning Nicaragua and points north and south. Nonetheless, we really did need to get the students out of there.
"Modern Russia" isn't "rescuing" 10 million Russian-speakers from Ukraine. They're using the population of Russian colonists from the 1930s who were moved in by Stalin after he starved the previous property owners to death, to justify a major land and sovereignty grab. The worst thing the Ukrainians had planned for them was to learn the Ukrainian language, but Moscow's overt and covert military support caused a miserable and bloody war. And when that was wasn't going fast enough - and they perceived a US impotence - they turned to a direct combined arms attack - uh, I mean "special military operation".
Russians being Russians.
Thanks, I’m well familiar with the re-write of the history there and how the US had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the situation today. After all, ChatGBT INSISTS that your version is correct.
Were the Soviets and the Cubans using Grenada as a staging area for troops and munitions to Sandanista Nicaragua for further support of rebels in Guatemala, el Salvador, and other Central American countries?
ChatBot - WTF?
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