Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.
High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia’s Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows extensive damage.
A crater approximately 60 meters wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, along with visible damage in the surrounding area that was not present in images taken earlier in the month.
for a ballistic missile 35 km is pretty ass. I think even ATACMs gets pretty close to this, upwards of like (edit 300km, i think i’m thinking of gmlrs lol) And that’s just a missile.
Ballistic missiles should really be able to go intercontinental, that was kind of the point of them.
for a ballistic missile 35 km is pretty ass.
Extremely ass.
Howitzers can shoot like 30km.
edit this cannon can do 41 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/155_GH_52_APU
edit2 we in Finland have like 700 howitzers and 56 of those linked cannons, plus tons of heavy mortars etc etc
ATACMS can go 300 km.
good call, i think i was confusing it with gmlrs for a second, though it’s also worth noting for a while the export variants had limited ranges, due to the US concerns over ukraine stuffing this shit straight into moscow.
Not anymore though.
