Putin's Much-Feared 'Satan 2' Nuclear Missile Failed 4 Out of 5 Tests
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High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile exploded shows extensive damage.

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.

  • isolatedscotchEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    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

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      We know from Trump’s heedless shitposting that they can get the theoretical maximum resolution out of whatever aperture they have. For the US ones with the Hubble-clone mirrors that means not quite enough to recognise a face.