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Russians have bad missile launches as well.

Whoops. First, kinda insane launching inside the harbor.

Whoops. First, kinda insane launching inside the harbor.

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  1. ORPO1

    Reblogged this on Among The Joshua Trees.

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  2. LT Rusty

    Oof.

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  3. Old AF Sarge

    Um, um, not good.

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  4. Jeff Gauch

    I don’t think it was a launch, I think the missile battery malfunctioned. You can hear the ship’s GQ alarm right at the end.

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  5. RoyK

    Wonder if the launch result had anything to do with the askew radar antenna on the main mast?

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  6. xbradtc

    No. That’s how the antenna is supposed to be. IIRC, it’s for a sidelobe cancellation.

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  7. Tarl

    The Russkie talks big, but frankly, he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys do.

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  8. Shaun Evertson

    Go to that guy’s channel (dmitro sevastopol) and watch the rest of the show. Pretty cool stuff. There’s a Rapoucha (Hull no 151) emptying a magazine of shore bombardment rockets from even deeper in the harbor.

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  9. Shaun Evertson

    Buncha tracks lined up on the breakwater firing mains out to sea as well. And a Grisha shooting asw rockets.

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  10. LT Rusty

    No, that was a launch. They do live-fire demos for their version of fleet week. This one just didn’t go quite as planned.

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  11. LT Rusty

    that’s exactly what it’s for.

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  12. LT Rusty

    Not exactly fair criticism there.

    True, the low-level labor force is made up of conscripts, and most of the actual technical work gets done at the CPO / JO level, but that doesn’t mean that Ivan’s totally incompetent.

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  13. HalfEmpty

    The Russkie talks big, but frankly, he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys do.
    LOL ic wut u did thar

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  14. Jeff Gauch

    How…very Russian.

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  15. ultimaratioregis

    Heh. Take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he’s got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn’t quit!

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  16. LT Rusty

    (but in the light of morning and with enough coffee I must be standing up straighter – the joke didn’t go over my head this time.)

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  17. Diogenes of NJ

    The Russians also use V beam height finding. Not sure if the antenna skew on that particular model is for V beam but that is a possibility. Sidelobe cancellation is commonly done with omnis. The 4 small antennas (high pair & low pair) arrayed around the SPS-49 (for example) are for coherent sidelobe cancellation. The backside antenna might function as a sidelobe blanker, which is a slightly different idea.

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  18. Diogenes of NJ

    Yaahhooooo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y

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  19. George V

    To me, it looks like the missile is boosted by a couple of JATO bottles, which weren’t properly attached to the missile. JATOs detach prematurely and go squirrely, leaving the missile with just enough oomph to clear the launch tube but not light the main engine. Way back in the age of dinosaurs I was in a Navy squadron that maintained and launched target drones. Drones had small turbojet engines and were boosted by JATO bottles. So this looks familiar (except in my experience, our JATO bottles stayed attached until they burned out!)

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