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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Thanks Satan

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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] 2 points 1 month ago

i imagine a bit of that is a software trick

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that simply robbing an entire nation and giving all the proceeds to your corrupt friends would lead to an inability to manufacture practically everything? TIL

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

And I bet the ones who had an issue with corruption tended to be more competent than those who were ok with it, biasing those who sent to gulags or slipped out of open windows towards those who could compensate for the corruption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And I thought RS-32 was old!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's just the NATO designation. Official name is Sarmat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is not the NATO reporting name, as I detail in my comment. That's associated with an older missile.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder how China feels having a North Korea on both sides of its country.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meh, ij mnay ways China IS north Korea, I doubt they have issues with it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

its north koreas all the way down?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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] 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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] 6 points 1 month ago

The only winning move is not to play

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pls better source

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

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

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