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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

Nobody is going to put radioactive material on the top of something that explodes in the home country. Pelting that much hazardous material into the atmosphere will be a very bad outcome.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Check the username, he's an ml.

He just wants you to understand we have no hope of standing against the might of a resurgent Russia and China and should surrender for better terms before his tankie friends can come in and make an example of you.

[-] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I signed up on ml because lemmy.world gave me an infinite spinner when I tried to post and ml was the second one I saw and figured it didn't matter. I think living in Russia or China would be awful and think Ukraine is a victim of Russia's terrible aggression. That doesn't mean I can't be anti nuclear war.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

And last year you could have also said "nobody is going to threaten nuclear escalation with all of NATO at once" and I'd have believed it, but look where we are

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[-] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

If the rocket explosion can create a 60 meters wide crater, my guess is it can still at least crack open the fission part and spill the material in the atmosphere.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

American nukes... We're talking Russian engineering here. I don't want to give them any benefit of doubt considering some of the janky shit they have tried rolling out in this war.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I'm talking of an effect like a dirty bomb, not thermonuclear detonation.

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