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.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      for a ballistic missile 35 km is pretty ass. I think even ATACMs gets pretty close to this, upwards of like 25km i want to say? And that’s just a missile.

      Ballistic missiles should really be able to go intercontinental, that was kind of the point of them.

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      3 hours ago

      How many kilometers is one stick of dynamite? By one stick, I mean like the size of a soda’s height with a diameter equal or Greater than an A in chemistry. The internal composition being 37.3 grains and the .3 grain was cut and licked properly…so yeah, how many kilometers would that be?