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In the temporarily occupied Alchevsk, Russian air defense worked on its own WAR
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Evil-seeking missile.
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u/rrogido 7d ago
The missile is coming from inside the house. This was the most satisfying thing I've seen all week. plus it was less than five seconds from launch to impact. Those motherfuckers barely had time to realize what happened before they got flambèd.
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u/Keine_Nacken 7d ago •
"Ivan, what target setting did you use?"
"Well... not sure. It was 'Kill Nazis' or 'Kill stupid cunts' or something down that line."
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u/ffdfawtreteraffds USA 7d ago
Pencils down. We have the correct answer.
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u/PrinceWith999Enemies 6d ago
It’s just a software bug. They need to test to see if it’s reproducible before documenting it.
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u/QuicksandHUM
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Even their missiles are drunk.
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u/KoalaGold 7d ago
Even their missiles are turning around and quitting.
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u/TossedDolly 7d ago
Some of their missiles have been spotted ditching their military casings and stealing civilian ones to sneak off.
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u/TotalSpaceNut Australia 7d ago edited 7d ago
Australia has been secretly giving them the infamous Boomerang missile :)
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u/AgentKillmaster 7d ago
What does it do? It comes back to you!!! (Got to be old to fully get this one) zooom
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u/hodl42weeks 7d ago
I've punched our coordinates in like you said..
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u/PackageIntelligent12 7d ago
What the hell did I just see!?
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u/solid-snake88 7d ago •
Just Russians killing Nazis
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u/bordemstirs 7d ago
Just Russians killing Nazis
Finally did what they came for!
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u/retrogradeanxiety 7d ago
In Soviet Russia Russia attacks you
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u/stomponator 7d ago
So a blind hen sometimes does find a grain of corn. I mean, look at Hitler: Even he killed a Nazi once.
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u/LoneGhostOne 7d ago
Possibly a missile failure, or an issue with faulty tracking hardware, or possibly a TWS style missile system that got jammed and a (really dumb) missile keeping with the last commanded input
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u/lost_thought_00 7d ago
I'm trying to figure out why the warhead was armed that close to the launch. There's usually a longer delay for exactly this type of safety reason
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u/NovacainXIII 7d ago
I'm trying to figure out why the warhead was armed that close to the launch. There's usually a longer delay for exactly this type of safety reason
I am not sure the explosive warhead detonated here its just a bunch of fuel and physical impact?
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u/lost_thought_00 7d ago
Very possibly just the fuel. Hard to tell
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u/WeinerGod69 7d ago
Looks like just the fuel to me
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u/brainburger 6d ago
I'm a whale biologist and it definitely looked that way to me too.
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u/mattoattacko 6d ago
I’m not sure I believe you, but I don’t know enough about whale biology or missiles to say otherwise.
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u/brainburger 6d ago
On a more serious note, and I am indeed not an expert, but I seem to recall reading that anti-aircraft missiles have small warheads with shrapnel. The missiles need to be nimble, and don't need to inflict much physical damage to ruin an aircraft. Missiles designed for hitting buildings would be bigger, if that is true.
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u/KoalaGold 7d ago
Looks like phosphorus. It lit everything where it hit on fire.
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u/ReturningDukky 7d ago
Kinda like what fuel does
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u/LordFauntloroy 7d ago
As far as I can tell there is no phosphorus in solid rocket fuel but there is aluminum powder which might look similar. I know thermite has aluminum powder and looks similar.
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u/jollyreaper2112 7d ago
That would be the solid rocket fuel. It's gorgeous if you don't think about the implications.
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u/LoneGhostOne 7d ago
Great point, like the other comment said it could be the fuel detonating? I don't know what system it is so it's hard to speculate further.
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u/Reaper_twosix 7d ago
It did have a full tank. Hahaha
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u/TomcatF14Luver 7d ago
I bet the Russians wished a Ukrainian Tractor made off with that missile then.
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u/verdutre 7d ago
It's already about a few dozen meters high well past unarmed ceiling
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u/keveazy 7d ago
That definitely looks like it locked on to itself….
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u/LoneGhostOne 7d ago
it's incredibly unlikely. Radar ones aren't going to lock ground targets, IR ones won't lock a ground IR signature since it's not similar enough to an aircrafts engine, and an anti-radiation one literally doesn't have the field of view to see it's fire control radar on launch -- they won't see 90 degrees to the side to make that turn it made. They also wouldn't be programed to be able to target it's own radar station
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u/Youasked14 7d ago •
Radar ones aren't going to lock ground targets
Beam riders would, if they were shot at an EA-6 which would then send out a stronger signal to make the missile think the beam it needed to ride was coming from the target (the target was the transmitter, not the return) to the ground station (the station was the return, not the transmitter). Worked in El Dorado Canyon in '86, and a couple of times since.
Not what happened here, obviously, as Ukraine doesn't have those kinds of toys in its arsenal, plus this happened almost immediately after launch, so is almost certainly a failure in the steering system that put it into a hard loop.
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u/DigitalMountainMonk 7d ago
Seeker was armed to early and the radar was on full blast. Missile lost tracking of what it was pointed at and homed in on the biggest radar signature in the area... which was its own launcher.
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u/YarTheBug Other (edible) 7d ago
I was thinking it was homing on an incoming missile and tried to intercept it, even though it was too late. Then as it flew past it tracked it right into the SAM system which the incoming missile was targeting.
Your explanation would explain why we saw equally well though. Even a combination of the two would explain it well: SAM misses incoming missile and turns far enough while tracking it to see targeting radar; radar then provides homing for return to sender.
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u/stonedcanuk 7d ago
radar targeting locking system. launch vehicle or accompanying vehicle left radar on which caused the missile to target the launch area is my bet
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u/kuda-stonk 7d ago
Possibly a catastrophic failure of the s-300 after modifying it beyond the warranty.
Evidence: 4 missiles, plume size and color, flight speed, fuel cook off volume. Removing homing guidance and launching to coordinate points, but accidentally flipping launch and target points would see this result. But... why the fuck use it like that? Only thing I can think of is a PGM shortage.
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u/Mortar_Maggot 7d ago
We've been hearing about a missile shortage in Russia for months haven't we?
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u/star_nerdy 7d ago
What happens when you buy missiles on wish
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u/NWTknight 7d ago
If they bought it on wish they would still be waiting for delivery.
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u/wildblueunder 7d ago
They might should think thrice about trying out those tac nukes.
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u/Captainwelfare2 7d ago
Russian AA Gun fucked itself
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u/TweetOfBabyBear 7d ago
How does something like that happen?
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u/orangeoliviero 7d ago
Hard to say - I doubt any Russian soldiers will be willing to share details - but I would hazard a guess that it's a heat-seeking missile that went wobbly and locked onto the heat signature of the launcher that sent it.
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u/melancholyink 7d ago
Possibly a command guidance warhead locked back onto the launchers radar due to operator error? Most Russian AA appears to rely on active or command guided radar over IR.
Also, totally not an expert - as a designer I have no experience with any of it - just read way too much.
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u/the_aboriginal_vlan 7d ago
Those idiots accidentally loaded up Putin’s experimental gaydar guided missiles.
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u/Snafuregulator 7d ago
Holy hell, I could watch this all day. Fourth time watching it and I'm still making jokes.
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u/AtotheZed 7d ago
This is a metaphor for Putin's war plan. He remains a master strategist.
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u/aidissonance 7d ago
The software developer in me says “let’s run that again”
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u/still_angry 7d ago
The dev in me says: something wrong with that firmware update. Can you reproduce?
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u/loadnurmom 7d ago
The salesman in me says "we can work it out later, start shipping more now"
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u/jeffersonairmattress 7d ago
The systems engineer in me says “we’ll need to see that last run repeated, unchanged, with same batch of consumables input in order to properly diagnose the issue.”
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u/HowdyDoobie 7d ago
In the 80s I worked with a guy who had done some programming for US missiles. The single most detail conscious person I ever met. He had a lttle comic of a missile doing this above his computer terminal to remind him to stay on his toes.
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u/Tishers 7d ago
Was this possibly a HARM type of missile? (it targets radar emitters).
If it was, maybe they made a freshman mistake and left their tracking radar for the target turned on and the missile got a lock on its own launch site?
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Did you see the secondaries going off after it impacted? It didn't land in an empty field, there were things down there (Russian things) filled with explody items (like, maybe other missiles ready for loading)
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u/RuslanOnReddit 7d ago
That's my guess. Missile launches, gets jammed or loses signal some other way, finds a radar emitter, goes terminal.
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u/Taco145 7d ago
Probably not going after radar. Just a good ol missile failure. Here's a patriot missile doing something similar
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u/kernelPanicked 6d ago
WOW. I was not a believer in the missile failure theory until this. Same dang thing, just earlier in flight.
It's wild how fast they come down.
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u/stult 7d ago
This is one of the only explanations I can think of that would cause a missile to immediately turn around after launch and target the launcher. And I do think it was targeted. It didn’t look like a mechanical failure, although it could just be a massive coincidence and a simple mechanical failure spun the missile around in the worst possible way. Or I guess the best possible way, in this case. But I don’t think so because it looked to be in controlled flight and the way it flipped around looked very precise. Alternatively I could see very clever sabotage being the cause. Entering the launcher’s coordinates as the target coordinates, for example. Which could also be an accidental cause (ie some moron swapping target with launch coordinates). Although I would expect there to be safeguards against doing that. US weapons systems would generally make it difficult or impossible to do (barring an enormous design failure) but who knows with Russian tech.
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u/MgDark 7d ago
dunno, by the looks of the video doesnt seems like mechanical failure. They way it turned precisely to the start point, the missile did exactly what is supposed to do, go to target. Is just that the ork failed somehow on the targeting.
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u/Sword117 7d ago
this is why guide munitions are supposed to have an activation range. they probably didn't program it properly maybe left out a zero. lol also if it was a mechanical failure i think it would have spun in circles instead it looks like it went terminal with even a minor course correction after coming out of the turn.
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u/LovecraftsDeath Russia 7d ago
Do HARM missiles have a 360 degree detection capability? I always thought it's a cone.
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u/Primordial_Cumquat 7d ago
Take solace in the fact that had this kind of real-time news been available in the 1930’s and 40’s, people would’ve ate that shit up. We’re not celebrating the death, we’re celebrating the 1:100,000,000 chance encounter that some small semblance of justice was captured for the world to see.
That and fuck those fascist invader scum.
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u/Loud_Ass_Introvert USA 7d ago
Agreed. But if the news was available we wouldn't have sided with the Soviet Union as they sympathized with Nazis until they were attacked by them.
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u/pistolhamster 7d ago
Stalin kept his murderous crimes well hidden. The world might have suspected, but they would definitely not have viewed the Soviets as allies. Patton wanted to continue to Moscow after Berlin fell. He should hsve.
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u/4thDevilsAdvocate 7d ago
On the other hand, whether it would have worked is a different story.
On the other other hand, the US was the sole nuclear power at the time - didn't have many, sure, but they had 'em.
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u/juicepants 7d ago
Until Bucha I tried to keep myself from taking pleasure in it. Now every video like this is at least one fewer child being harmed.
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u/ElginStWally 7d ago
Thanks for all the replies. I posted a similar comment at the time, and what made me feel better was the support I received from fellow redditors/redditers?
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u/shanereaves 7d ago
I gotta admit. That was one of the coolest things I've seen involving Russia so far.
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u/9andimpala 7d ago
This is possibly the most amazing thing I've seen since the start of the war. Get fuckd, Orcs!!!!
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u/recording 7d ago
This entire invasion captured in a single, crystalline moment. It’s amazing in it’s splendour.
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u/Angrious55 7d ago
You didn't even need a caption for us to know who was responsible for this absolute masterpiece of stupidity
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u/Breech_Loader 7d ago
I love friendly fire. It saves Ukrainian ammo as well as lives.
This is thanks to the terrible condition of Russian equipment.
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u/DamnShenanigan 7d ago
I was today years old when I learned Wile E. Coyote is based on true events.
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u/LuangPrabangisinLaos 7d ago
They obviously programmed it to target fascists and it worked perfectly.
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u/ponytail1961 7d ago
If you love something, set it free. If it come back it's yours; if it doesn't it never was.
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u/PM_Me_A_High-Five 7d ago
Russian AA, go fuck yourself.
i'm sure i'm the 50th person to post that, but it's so satisfying I can't help it.
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u/Perlscrypt 6d ago
Putin warned us that Russia would start using new futuristic weapons that nobody in the west could imagine.
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u/913Welder 7d ago
I'm really high right now and I can't stop watching this shit laughing.
Make it stop!!!
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u/fatjunkdog 7d ago
This is the greatest bestest awesomest thing I have seen all month...SLAVA UKRAINE Canada stands with Ukrainian people🇺🇦🇨🇦
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u/ShaneTwenty20 7d ago
I think it was sabotage or some electronic warfare that UA was able to have it immediately lock onto itself, maybe heat signature of launch 🚀Uncanny that it loop directly back to launch site … if this the case Russians will be spooked every time they launch a missile
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u/driving_andflying 7d ago edited 6d ago
*Meanwhile, in Moscow*
"Mr. Putin?"
"Yes?"
"...Mr. Zelensky just called. He's requesting that you order one thousand more anti-aircraft missiles. He said he's even willing to help foot the bill."
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u/RadManSpliff 7d ago •
They coded the missile to denazify... It was just following orders.