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.

  • ms.lane
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    361 month ago

    Try to copy Ukrainian missile from 58 years ago

    Fail

    Second greatest military in the world!

    • Bizzle
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      321 month ago

      Second greatest military in the world

      I think they might be second best in Russia by now lmfao

        • Bizzle
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          21 month ago

          Has Wagner done anything since Jeka’s definitely not suspicious death?

          • Aniki 🌱🌿
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            21 month ago

            I think I remember hearing in Jake Hanrahan’s Popular Front podcast in an interview that they have all been absorbed into the regular army.

    • @[email protected]
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      -121 month ago

      Try to copy Ukrainian missile from 58 years ago

      When both Russia and Ukraine were part of the USSR?

      Second greatest military in the world!

      The USSR hasn’t existed for >30 years, since then, Ukraine and Russia have done little but feed on its corpse. Does anyone honestly think modern Russia has a better military than China?

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        Good point. Failing to copy your own missile would be even worse, though.

        Does anyone honestly think modern Russia has a better military than China?

        A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

          You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            I mean the jokes comes from somewhere.

            To try to be less technical, I’d go as far as saying it was a double-digit percentage of public commenters. I remember because I was there thinking how dumb that is.

        • @[email protected]
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          A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

          Did it? I remember a ton of propaganda about Putin and Russia going back to the Obama era, but then they’d show off stuff the USSR had developed to fight a war in Germany/Ukraine against late 1900s American equipment and tactics.

          Whereas China was showing off their modern fighters, tank and ship production, and an entire branch of the military dedicated to missiles, and greater numbers than any other military, all designed to fight their next war; defending against/driving the US out of it’s back yard.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month ago

            If you’re talking about the whole “human wave” thing in WWII, the ex-Nazis made that up for their memoirs. The old AskHistorians subreddit went into it once; basically the USSR fought the same way everyone else did.

            I think the smart money was still on China post 2010 or so, but there was actual debate. They had a lot of old weapon stocks, and a still respectable population, if not as huge as China’s.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              If you’re talking about the whole “human wave” thing in WWII, the ex-Nazis made that up for their memoirs.

              Ironically, there actual cases of human-wave like attacks in WWII, notably banzai charges by Japan and MacArthur’s Walking Fire.

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                Walking Fire is new to me. It sounds like it’s pretty much an older term for suppressive fire during an advance, from a quick search. Do you have an example of it leading to massive attrition like that?

                The Japanese liked to do it as a last resort sometimes, that’s definitely true, and it was the plan if the home islands were invaded. In practice, I have no idea what proportion of those civilians drilling with melee weapons would have been dumb enough to try it IRL, though.

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          The USSR couldn’t have achieved a fraction of what it did without all its SSRs working together.

          Hell it probably wouldn’t have survived getting invaded by every country with a military after WWI without both Russia and Ukraine.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          True the engineering were always done In Ukraine, Russia just got carried by the others nations

        • @[email protected]
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          No, the .ml moment would be something like “don’t believe your lying CIA eyes, all the non-Western nations are working together in beautiful anti-imperialist harmony and very competent”.

          This seems like a normal take from someone who happens to be on .ml.

          • @[email protected]
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            Most propaganda isn’t that obvious. It often seems normal and a lot of it is actually based on the truth.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 month ago

              Internet “anti-imperialists” wish they were getting paid, which is what propaganda implies. In reality, it’s Qanon but gay-friendly.

        • ArxCyberwolf
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          21 month ago

          I expected a .ml to show up huffing copium when I saw this thread, wasn’t disappointed. So predictable.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s copium to acknowledge that Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country 58 years ago, and that modern Russia and Ukraine are able to achieve far less than the USSR was? This is evidenced by both countries primarily fighting with 30+ year old weapons.

            I guess basic historical literacy is tankie shit now.

      • YeetPics
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        01 month ago

        Ever consider rooting for a team that isn’t fascist?

        It can be great fun, trust me.

  • @[email protected]
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    221 month ago

    ok slightly unrelated but the satellite pictures have an insane resolution for having been taken from, you know, space

    The pics

    Just imagine what the government has if that’s what’s available commercially to the public

  • @[email protected]
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    241 month ago

    I’m sorry, the what missile? I know there’s already “hellfire” missiles, but proclaiming a sequel to Lucifer Morningstar seems a bit silly.

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    11 month ago

    It can carry multiple warheads, including nuclear ones, with estimates suggesting it can deliver up to 10–15 independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).

    Oh good, if only one single missile in Russia’s entire arsenal goes off, we’d only loose 10-15 cities.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 month ago

      MIRVs have been a thing for like 50 years.

      The US even took them out of submarine launched missiles, because they made the soviets so nervous we had to promise that we couldn’t delete half of their country in 15 minutes.

      But don’t worry, nuclear war happens so fast, and diplomatic channels are so slow, if anyone launches anything, everyone is practically forced to launch everything or risk losing it. So even if Russia did just launch one to destroy 10-15 cities, all of the cities everywhere would be destroyed anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          There have been several incidents where warning systems glitched out, and only the quick thinking of a handful of individuals stopped an actual launch from happening.

      • @[email protected]
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        -121 month ago

        If you ever look up at the sky and see 5-10 diagonal lines almost in parallel… well, if you have a firearm nearby, that would be a good time to self-exit for sure.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          I live right next to one of the largest airports in the world.

          I see 5-10 parallel lines in the sky multiple times a day.

          I also live next to one of the largest airports in the world, which is a few miles from a national guard base located right outside one of the largest cities in America.

          I’m probably in the fireball radius of a nuke, assuming the Russians haven’t been embezzling their government money and are still fueling their hydrogen bombs, so if the big red button gets pushed, I’ll just get vaporized about half an hour later.

          Don’t shoot yourself just because you see lines in the sky. You’re either close enough to civilization for planes to make lines in the sky, in which case the bombs will probably get you anyway, or you’re so far out in the sticks that you’ll have plenty of time to make a decision.

  • @[email protected]
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    281 month ago

    Really hard to adhere to quality if money is being pocketed at every corner and then spend outside the hellhole you created.