I’m as much a fan of schadenfreude as the next guy, but every test brings this weapon closer to the battle field.
Still i bet russia would prefer that they had Sarmat working so they could use it as a threat.
Of course! I’d also like all my programs to run fine without bugs the first time. But that’s just not the nature of things. What we’re seeing here is, ummm, hardware debugging. It’s the process of getting to a reliable delivery system unfolding in real time.
That said, this quest for a Super Weapon that will force the West to finally recognize Russia as a Real Power Once and For All is super fucking creepy. It’s equal parts Bond villain and the final years of another famous European dictator. Neither are exciting prospects for world security.
It did run fine the first time :) then the next 4 launches failed. My hope is that sanctions and bright pepole leaving russia has made in hard to launch nukes. We will see.
∞ - 1 = ?
Sadly that’s not how it works, especially with government money. A good example is SpaceX, they succeeded so fast because they failed fast and learned fast. Failure is always progress as long as you don’t give up
That being said the Russians should totally give up
James Acton, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote on X that the before-and-after imagery of the Sarmat missile silo was “very persuasive that there was a big explosion.”
Glad they got an expert to weigh in on this…
I mean, how am i supposed to know if there’s an explosion happened just because it happen to have a giant-ass crater?
It’s weird how explosions often take place where craters are
TBF it could have just been an underground facility collapsing due to the stress from a rocket launch.
That’s what stress could do to you.
It’s very funny to me how much nonsense is in this article.
What I mean by that is that the satellite photos - they look like Cuban missile crisis photos. I understand why they would mask the capability of spy tech, but I can get clearer imagery of my house from google.
And they don’t know when the launch failure occurred? There are plenty of seismographs that would pick up a large explosion like that. Psh.I understand why they would mask the capability of spy tech
Then why are you confused?
My comment said I was amused.
What point are you trying to make, or what angle are you trying to get at?
@threelonmusketeers When you test that superweapon of you:
Where did the roads go? These are very weird pictures imo. Instead of before and after it looks like an after and before, with edits.
Turns out that blowing up a hundred tons of rocket fuel underground will make some dirt land on top of roads.
The ones closer to the silo are probably part of the rubble, the ones further away are likely just buried.
If you want some idea of what blowing up an ICBMs worth of rocketsfuel will do: in 1980, a US serviceman dropped a spanner in a nuclear missile silo. That led to a fuel leak and the explosion from it sent the warhead flying THROUGH the 750 ton silo door and over threehundred meters away. There are some amazing books on the Damascus Silo incident.
I totally forgot about dirt. I was only thinking of rubble and the initial blast.
The book. Command and Control about the incident is like 600 pages and it was so good I read it in a weekend. Highly recommended.
I’ve got the audiobook, which is not the ideal form for a book with two separate narratives, but is still quite good!
Yes, totally a psyop. No way an underground explosion could have spread soil in the streets around! /s
