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What Happens When A Russian Surface-To-Air Missile Launch Goes Horribly Wrong
Shortly after Russia announced early last week that it would take advantage of the lifting of the Iran sanctions and proceed to deliver an unknown number of S-300 "defensive" surface-to-air missiles, the Kremlin sought to reassure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that any deliveries of these to Iran will not threaten Israel's security.
Judging by the following video which captures what happens when a launch of a S-300 SAM goes horribly wrong (and the immediate stunned aftermath), he may very well be right.
That, or the Russian troops were simply showcasing what will happen one day when no amount of Mario Draghi threats can push the EURUSD higher any longer.
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At least the females are attractive.
There is a lot of fun going on there ...it looks like everything was staged.
And now Ntalyahu and Obama don't have to be so worried.
Pretty sure if it was staged the ground crews were not in on it
Their reactions were legit
Though I would not put anything past that wily Putin
And the US thinks that a bunch of untrained East Ukie rebels using ancient Russian SAMs were able to shoot down an airliner that was 6 miles in the air?
accidents happen
Who was that redhead looking for her clothes 2 minutes in?
http://nypost.com/2010/06/29/sexy-russian-spy-anna-chapman/#16
Yup, I will take a hundred of those babies please.
Do they come back with a money bak guarentee?????
Next order of business is to put a "tactical nuke" on it......
Go Putin!!! You rock!!!!
They drink the same amber chilled crap that Americans drink. They used to drink ale like Bass which is served at room temperature for the hops to have proper flavour. US Bud and Miller is canned urine.
'US Bud and Miller is canned urine.'
Agreed. I had a hard time reacclimitizing to US beer when I came nack from Europe after 3 yrs. Budweiser is no longer an American beer. Some Belgian Cosortium (ABV?) bought them, Dodge is Fiat, etc...
I sell Duty Free American beer and cigarettes and bourbon and Canadian whisky, Scotch .... let's say I sell loosies .... for fun and a little profit .... can't get enough .... and Mexico has excellent beers .... so, I wouldn't call American beer "canned urine" !
Some Belgian Cosortium (ABV?) bought them...
Good to see ZH beginning to reclaim some of its original investment / stock market news information. Could this be a sign our markets are returning to normal?
since when is an American Lager supposed to a) have any emphasis on the hops, or b) be served at anything other than ice cold temperature... if you like your warm yeast you can have it...
Im thinking that was Joe Flaherty in that shot. Very Scary Kids!!!
Good to see the Russian people have not lost their good common sense and still can see the utility
of that almost forgotten catch-all-when-Shtf phrase "HIT THE GROUND!!!!!!" :)
Good Lord ... even the missiles are drunk 24/7.
I love drinking with the Russians. I like how they are laughing at the end of the vid. That failure does not surprise me one bit. I will show that vid to my Russian woman and she will say, "What the fuck did you expect? Are you an idiot still?"
Russian fireworks.
Not everything is so grim in Russkie. This launch attempt (filmed on location in Eastern Ukraine) can certaingly be rated as a qualifying success, with the crew of Novorossia cossacks claiming their well deserved Darwin prizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KQGEuFM0E
I think the NORKS call that kind of missle the No Dong.
Does your shitgum .... lose it's flavor .... in the toilet overnight ? LOL
This just in: Someone drank all the vodka used to fuel the rocket resulting in ignition failure..., the Russian military responded by doubling the rations available to the men to make sure this doesn't happen quite so often.
The Russians forever .... have recommended drinking spirits .... with the same % alcohol .... as the degree of latitude where you are drinking .... the North Pole would merit 90% alcohol .... so they can't have any of my Puro de Can(y)a cane alcohol .... it's rated at 96% alcohol !
Dudes from both sides
Last week I saw a story in the Russian media, that the Russian military was going to make some modifications to the S-300s sold to Iran.
As the S-300 has been around longer than most of the commenters here, they probably don't have to continually test it.
However, if they are making improvements on the S-300, they would need to test the improvements that they installed. This would explain the video of a failed rocket with newly configured rocketry.
Russia has not not yet made the final changes.
It breaks my heart to tell the neocons to stop masterbating and start drinking more Coors Lite.
Good to see that Russian missiles still work as good as Russian boot polish and elevator doors did during the Cold War.
Pooty shootin' blanks??????
I dunno....
This smells like a NATO propaganda film, with some ugly potato-picking Polish women dressed up like Rooskies, and some other butt-uglies from Brittain prancing around in Rooskie khakis....
NATO/CIA is trying to reassure the euro-poosies that the Rooshkins can be beaten on the battlefield. Don't fall for it, poosies......USA is juss tryin' to throw you under the avtobus....
You have to understand the translation. "Where is the colonel?" the one guy asks is the best I can translate. Those kids were not even Russian military per se. Those were some "volunteers" so to speak. They gave them old ordnance to blow up. It is has been going around on the Russian interweb all week. They did what they were supposed to do and that is why they laugh. They had fun doing that but they got more then they bargained for. That is so Russian of them. No one even got hurt.
That was not a failure at all but rather a success. Fucks sakes, when the hell to we get to blow off old ordnance like that? The best we have is tannerite.
That is not the best Russia has to offer for ordnance. More of statement that says; we let our kids run with scissors so shut up.
Too bad it wasnt a vid from north korea. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because N koreas long range missles wont reach that far.
If the US invaded Canada .... to save ethnic Americans in Alaska .... or Invaded eastern Canada to secure the St. Lawrence seaway .... it would be the equivalent of Russian aggression in the Ukraine and the Crimea ! Oh yeah, we'd have to shoot down an a civilian airliner .... full of AIDS care givers .... nice touch of class .... eh, Poohteen' (Putin is the diminuitive form of the Spanish word Puto i.e. male whore)?
They released this *after* cashing Iran's check?
I hope the check was in Rubles !
Well if you think the SAM misfire was cool, you might like this Russian Shilka AA fail also.
https://youtu.be/n9bmCsWRtjs
I gotta say though my 1986 Romy "G" series goes bang every time.
Grimaldus
jajajaja..ah those Russians...always standing too close to those things....
Thank you ZH, as this clearly shows the counter PR being run by Russia itself, just so we know how this works. What a remarkable coincidence this video was just posted on youtube. Also how there still won't be a delivery supposedly until end of year. Nothing to worry about folks, it doesn't even work! So this is how the news is spun: every decisive course of events is buffered from the other side to make it appear like a non-event, so the public is none the wiser until it's too late.
Oh fuck off already. What are you? Some 14 year old? It was a simple video shot with no political purposes by some kids.(kind of like the eagle scouts) You are making it into something it isn't. It was a RUSSIAN JOKE and it worked ON YOU.
Russians like to have fun as well and blow up shit. They just do it in a different way.
Right. This just happened right now, this little accident, right? Even as a 14 year old I could probably make more sense than you.
Ok then, let's say this is an old video that the kid just remembered was on her/his phone. Actually, now that I think about it, personal phones are not allowed in the military. So, was this shot with military equipment (pun, not at you)?
They are training on weapons systems: To train means sometimes you fail. It means nothing. Both sides chanting in both directiions is futile.
I see the Ukie and DOS trolls don't know shit about missiles. First, the Malaysian jet was shot down by a Ukie fighter. That is why the US hasn't released their satellite footage or flight data. Two, if Russian AA missiles suck so badly, why does everyone want them? Third, The S-300 is the old stuff. The S-500 is the new new stuff and once those are in....I think the Russian hardliners start pushing back on the US.
Having grown up on a SAC base with a dad who worked on all of the major aviation systems operated by SAC I learned a lot through dad. The first is, shit happens with airplanes. The second is that even more shit happens with missiles. We had a Titan II missile system down the down road...remember the fuel leaks from this POSs. I just finished a book called "Command and Control" about a Titan II that blew up in 1980 in Arkansas....lot of old memories there.
If you want to read about how the world has just barely avoided ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON half a dozen times, this is the book for you. I had flashbacks to the unique cold war terror that only kids living near a SAC base can experience - ie, knowing the Soviets had you in the crosshairs and the annual SAC plane or USAF plane falling out of the sky near your house.
http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2013/oct/04/command-and-control-4...
Then---there is just general Russian fail:
https://youtu.be/yl60KfgM0Fc
Grimaldus
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/04/iran-has-the-right-to-protect-itself/
No need for the scare quotes around 'defensive'. Israel hates it when people can defend themselves.
The Zionists want more lebensraum.
Fitting, for Nazis.
It looks like a routine training launch, that failed.
It happens quite often in various weaponry. Artillary, motar, missiles. all have standard procedures for so called "misfire". when things dont go as planned.
It does not mean anything.
As an international history buff and in honor of the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's alleged ride in 1775 let's do an out with the old British Empire in with the new Evil Empire Russia comparison.
What would 1 if by land 2 if by sea mean for Paul Revere today? Well they certainly wouldn't start with ground troops that's for sure. If it even is the Russians to begin with. The boogie man wears many faces.
So 1 if by land could be these S-300 surface to air missiles. How many of these been reported stolen or missing over the years? This crash doesn't bode well to ensure success. So they'd be sure to have a backup plan. Maybe more than 1 even.
So then there's 2 if by sea. That means this would be launched from sea maybe a ship or submarine like the P-700 Granit missile. Weren't there a bunch of those reported "missing" when the Kursk sank in 2000? Didn't Dimitri Khalezov allege 1 was used to attack the Pentagon on Sept. 11?
And as they used to say on Joker's Wild where I learned a great deal of English. I'll go off the board Jack and choose Under the Sea for $50. So why be obvious and launch something. The backup plan to the backup could be what? Maybe plant something offshore to go off causing a tsunami. Isn't that one of the theories of the cause of earthquake and Fukushima tsunami? Those Christians and their conspiracy theories. Like Jonathan K saying things like this show up on money in advance. Paaallease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fafxhMLeGeA
It's the head of a new moon in the West so
Rosh Chodesh Tov
And enough with hating the Jews already
How can we stop hating the Jews already, after reading stupid comments like yours? It's so bad, I'm not going to waste my time taking it apart sentence by sentence.
If Netanyahu is dumb enough to attack Iran after they get their S300s he'll probably use the old khazeray jets in the IDF airforce and pilots known to be in favor of peace.
Let me remind you what Sun Tzu said:
Is that too much for your kosher mind to grasp?
Good point though about the boogie man. It is probably not the Russians, but it might be their old weapons that were stolen or sold. As for security, we have many lapses here in USA where "stuff" goes missing.
Russian missiles only work after 2 bottles of vodka...these soldiers were clearly sober. That said, the other 99.999% of the missiles work just fine.
If i were Mario Draghi i wouldnt laugh to loud this could happen to him too. And we all know he'll scream like a whore and there will be euros all over the zone.
FAIL: ALLAHU AKHBAR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns6zaLir1Zk
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/shoot-down-of-commercial-airli...
what a BS article this is. lol
a missile that doesn't explode.
the flag not even knocked over.
probably Ukies.
and then the tie in to netanyahoo
and draghi
holy shit you guys were really busy with your mental masturbation weren't you. lmao
oh, dat funny...wishin' ida had a job wut was fun like d'rusky milterry...o' any job fo' dat mattah...den ica gets me some hooks, n' some blow...til den, I be satusfide wif' a hunned dollah beel, n' a gowd toof...yeah, you got it suckah...nigrow rich...
Over the past several years, President Vladimir Putin has consolidated power in Russia by marshaling an assertive nationalist ideology, creating an alternative reality through total media dominance and prosecuting a hybrid war in Ukraine.
Yet for a leader who speaks boldly, his preferred mode of action is clandestine—a style shaped by his years in the USSR’s state security service, the KGB.
Secrecy, however, is a problematic mode of behavior for his propaganda-driven regime. And clandestinity is not the best way to burnish an image of a strong, pitiless leader—a tough guy, ready to use force to advance Russia’s influence in the world. Hanging with motorcycle gangs, riding horses bare-chested and taking part in judo exhibitions simply won’t cut it.
To deal with this discrepancy, Putin has developed a highly articulated set of signals used in communicating with Russia’s public and its elites, as well as the international community. This Putin code was on display in several notable ways in Moscow in recent weeks.
On March 25, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, one of Russia’s few independent news outlets, reported that the president had issued a decree honoring three Russian military units for “heroism in combat.” The three units came from Ussuriysk, north of Vladivostok in Russia’s East; from Ula Ude, in Russian Mongolia; and from the Moscow region.
None of the units honored has officially been acknowledged as having deployed in a combat zone in recent years. The decree was a tacit signal of gratitude for soldiers who likely were deployed in action clandestinely in eastern Ukraine.
Putin sent another powerful coded message to Russians and the world on March 15 when he appeared as the central persona in a behind-the-scenes documentary on Russian state TV Channel 1, titled “The Road Home.” The film tells the true story of the occupation and annexation of Crimea in February and March 2014.
In the documentary, Putin makes clear that he decided to wrench Crimea from Ukraine without any consultation with Crimean leaders and minus any discussion with Russia’s legislators. It makes a mockery of Putin’s claim that the citizens of Crimea were driven to seek unification with Russia because they feared a “nationalist” Ukrainian government that gained power after the toppling of President Viktor Yanukovych.
And it should be remembered that Putin initially had vehemently denied that his armed forces were involved at all in the military operations that accompanied the Russian takeover.
Though Putin initially distanced himself from the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, his later public signals hinted at a far different reality. On March 9, a day after a group of Chechens were arrested for killing Nemtsov, and after Chechnya’s ruthless leader Ramzan Kadyrov praised the self-confessed killer Zaur Dadaev as a “Russian patriot,” Putin honored Kadyrov with the “Order of Honor,” a high state award.
On March 10, Russian media sent a further signal indicating what had really happened in the Nemtsov case. It was revealed that Dadaev had resigned his commission as a Russian Internal Ministry soldier a day after he and his colleagues put four bullets into Nemtsov. In other words, Netmsov’s killer was on the Russian government payroll as he planned and executed his murder.
The tactic of people resigning their military commissions to engage in clandestine acts—officially denied by the Kremlin—is the way Russian soldiers, including Chechen fighters, are dispatched to the front in eastern Ukraine. Russian experts suggest that such documents are pro forma and are held in the event fighters are captured by Ukrainian forces, to maintain the illusion of Russian noninvolvement in the conflict.
In December, Kadyrov, the highly honored Kremlin satrap of Chechnya, hosted a rally of 15,000 of his special forces in the city of Grozny, where he declared personal fealty to Putin. Kadyrov indicated the willingness of his fighters to perform tasks that “can only be solved by volunteers” and cannot be handled officially by the regular army and security services. “[C]onsider us a volunteer special detachment of the supreme commander, ready to defend Russia,” he declared.
The Kadyrovtsy (Kadyrov’s men), as they are known, are proving their loyalty as something akin to Putin’s Praetorian guard by fighting in Ukraine in large numbers. Now one from their rank has eliminated Putin’s most prominent critic.
A second March 9 presidential honor sent another signal, this time to the international community. A “Service to the Motherland” award was conferred on Andrey Lugovoy, a former Russian intelligence operative wanted in Britain for involvement in the plutonium poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko.
A former security service officer who investigated and documented Kremlin complicity in an alleged “terrorist” bombing, Litvinenko was murdered in 2006 in London. While the Kremlin has denied complicity, it has also prevented Lugovoy from facing the British justice system, despite significant evidence of radioactive contamination in a hotel room he occupied before the assassination. Now the award signals the esteem in which the agent is held.
All these are object lessons in Putin’s modus operandi. Their real message is this: I am working secretly with my security services to advance Russian power. Sometimes I will need to dissemble in order to achieve advance Russian aims. In the end, all will be revealed if you carefully listen to what I tell you.
This is not a case of doublespeak. It is something entirely new. It is a case of partial-speak: conveying crucial information over the course of time in a way that at first dissimulates or makes dark hints, but later makes clear to the initiated the full intent of Putin’s actions.
This partial-speak, this intimation of a Russian hand (tempered by half-hearted denial), is dictated both by the needs of Putin’s internal propaganda machine and his need to string along Western leaders. It is also a sign of Putin’s aversion to risk and of his fear of setbacks or defeat.
By merely hinting at involvement until an operation is successfully completed, Putin not only leaves the door open to retreat but also allows him to sidestep blame in the event of failure. Moreover, it gives him options to retreat in the face of difficulty.
For a multiplicity of reasons, the Putin code will be with us as long as he is in power. It is time for us to master its meaning and be attentive to its dark message.
Wow, you know so much about Putin. You live there in Russia?
Can you also share your wisdom on Obama and his cronies? We need it here so much.
How the US Propaganda System Works
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/09/how-the-us-propaganda-system-works/
US Propaganda: How Corporate America Manipulates the American PUblic Into Unwitting Support for Corporate Fascism
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-propaganda-how-corporate-america-manipulates-the-american-public-into-unwitting-support-for-corporate-fascism/5408445
The Worst Cases Of Government Propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loVqqfJgGh4
Government Propaganda Then & Now
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/12/06/government-propaganda-then-now/
Government propaganda and the enslavement of humanity
http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/government-propaganda-enslavement-humanity/ .
It it now legal to manufacture lies by the government to the public
http://debateneutral.com/now-legal-manufacture-lies-government-public/
NDAA Allows US Government to Use Propaganda Against Americans
http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2014/06/ndaa-allows-us-government-to-use-propaganda-against-americans-2449318.html
Nice bit of story telling about the murder of Putin's most prominent critic, Nemtsov. (why did I always think Navalny was his most prominent critic? I guess because I saw his name scores of time in the Western and Russian media and never saw Nemtsov's.) But Navalny wasn't murdered, Nemtsov was, so you promoted him posthumously to Putin's most prominent critic-in-chief.)
In your mind does anything in Russia under Putin (since 2000) compare to the conspiracy about JFK's murder and its successful refutation by the Warren Commission.
You don't care if Oswald was or was not the single shooter in Dallas that day.
You don't care if a single bullet was fired at JFK.
You don't care if the CIA murdered the president who had just fired Allen Dulles and then Lyndon Johnson put Allen Dulles on the Warren Commission.
You don't care because you are an anti-Putin bozo.
Regarding putin regime so called "modern weapons" i- yes, they failed before and will fail in future.
https://youtu.be/QtuN8UuAWTg
Iran should think again before buy this trash from putin regime. Using putin regime weapons Iran could damage it self. For russians this no problem as putin regime doesn't care about russians. But Iran should think twice before killing own soldiers with putin regime failed weapon system.
Latvia's population fell under 2 million line last year. This is down by 26% since the 1990, the year when Latvia became independent from the Soviet Union. How nice has the development been in EU- and NATO-Latvia. I am sure that within 20 years the results will be as impressive
Great. Volunteers for a bomb run over the Kremlin, anyone?
I do not like this warmongering. The launch of a S-300 SAM should be condemned. It is essentiel for peacemaking in the world. http://www.swiftairportparking.co.uk/
so, when Putin the Dickhead goes full retard and orders a nuclear attack, will the same happen to all (or at least half) of Russian ICBMs? I in that ICBM will then stand for "Intra". On the other hand, this will be just in spirit of what Putin the Dickhead has been doing all along - fucking up Russia
lol never go full retard mate . NEVER !
On the other hand, when they do mostly work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGaq8QW0x4
Or of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUnnbZDqAc ... S400 and S500 shortly.
I wish that was a nuclear warhead.
At least they have Putin, the dickhead. We have Obola, the vagina!!.
Meh...
Russians make good Air Defense systems.
Nobody makes perfect ones.
I am more interested in how the soldiers react, how everyone is laughing until the commander tells them to go check on the launchers, and for any wounded. Tells you a lot about how much initiative the lower ranks in the Russian Army have in general...but again, every unit is different.
This is what happens when a bunch of guys tries to impress a bunch of ladies!
I guess Communists in the 20th Century were the first to put women in regular Armed forces in the Modern Age
1 Russia
2 China
3 Israel
4 USA
Hm.... the USA takes lessons from Communist in socializing women into become Militarized.
Pretty sure I have this Correct here. And lots of Israelis came from Russia.
Soviet missile technology at its finest!
Just imagine how many scientists' families went to the gulag for that embarrassing display!
lol it's a BS article . He just came up with random video with no media quoting nothing at all . Russians test these missiles and their abm shield every year . Bob , take a deep breath .
Although your profoundly ignorant comment left me speechless, I may be able fumble out a reply.
And what is a Russian missile but a Russian rocket carrying a warhead and not an European satellite.
Or American Astronauts.
Why don't you do everyone here a favor and apply for your HSET and learn to converse intelligently here at ZH?
I see parallels to the Hillary 2016 campaign. Perhaps Hillary would get traction if she brought Anthony Weiner on as her running mate? Hillary/Weiner 2016
Isn't there something in Sun Tsu's 'Art of War' about misleading the enemy into believing you are weak?
I think they laugh because the failed launch was a success.
Agree, but there is another possibility. They laughed because they were so relieved it did not blow up on the ground and send chunks of trucks into the watching soldiers. Somebody had to change his pants that day. And nobody was in a hurry to inspect the failed rocket - what if it went off after a delay? They didn't move until ordered to, and then some of them grabbed flak jackets first (pessimistic, with shades of hopeless hope).
Odds are there will be at least one dud, and in the age of You Tube it will be publicized. Apart from this episode, though, I've heard those missiles have a good launch record.
yup
Certainly no inspection in the 2 minutes of video we saw. The Seabees would have been all over that smoking rocket in less than a minute no doubt.
Do you think the rocket was armed? Or that the Russians were just seeing how many miles per gallon they could get converting McDonalds used french fry oil to propellent?
I think you're right
they laugh because the failed launch was a success.
Where was the fire ball? And why was the rocket launched so far away from its mobile launcher?
Was this one of Russia's 10,000 S300s? Was it a killer S300 VM (Antey-2500) or was it one of a dozen other missiles called S300s? Perhaps it was a S300 being modified for delivery to Iran?
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150417/1021011915.html
When was this video shot? Do you know?
Where was the fireball when the rocket hit the ground? Didn't you see Musk's rocket hit its landing platform the other day?.
Is that why the Russian crew "grabbed their coats and grabbed their hats. and left their worries on the steppes" at the end of the video?
That's what it look like to me.
This video was obvious shot by a Russian officer and not a Russian Gomer Pyle. That officer had no reason to embarrass Russia with it's release as the entire crew knew who had the camera.
Finally how is it the video had no problem finding it's way on to ZH?
There are a trillion reasons why this is a Russian success and not one of their failures.
Go home Russian missile, you're drunk.