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          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.

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        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

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    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…

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    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.

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      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.

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      Yes, totally a psyop. No way an underground explosion could have spread soil in the streets around! /s