Satellite footage suggests Russia ICBM launch test was a disaster

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/23/russia-sarmat-icbm-disaster/

19 Comments

  1. Clearly there must have been some sabotage involved. It is obvious that nothing could have gone wrong by itself. Soviet, er I mean Russian engineering is perfect. So that clearly points to sabotage. I sure hope the FSB rounds up all the Russian eggheads and jails them and tortures them … er no – again I mean. Conducts a thorough and fair investigation to find out who the traitors are. Maybe all of them are the traitors!

  2. > Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the RS-28 Sarmat as a “formidable weapon,” claiming that the system has virtually no range limitations

    Indeed.

  3. Oops. Guess their big scary missile isn’t so scary after all. Their big scary missile isn’t so scary after all.

  4. According to Russian officials, it worked perfectly. Better even than they expected, as it targeted an enemy they didn’t even realize was there. The body has not yet been found.

  5. Republicans, fascists, garbage humans everywhere share one thing in common. Because they cannot take responsibility for their actions they can never get better at things. So not only are they evil but offensively incompetent.

  6. Typical of Russian technology, the Sarmat missile utilizes consumer grade pagers in it telemetry systems.

  7. yet more evidence the russian silo ICBM fleet is not exactly meeting its readiness goals.

    fortunately the US isnt interested in actually testing their capabilities. but it really does raise the question of if their fleet of nukes are operational at all. probably gives the war planners at the pentagon who come up with random battle plans something more interesting to game out with Russia though.