The missile meant to strike fear in Russia's enemies fails once again

[LiberalArkie]

DEC 1, 2025 5:36 PM



A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet.

Russia’s military has been silent on the accident, but the missile’s crash was seen and heard for miles around the Dombarovsky air base in Orenburg Oblast near the Russian-Kazakh border.

A video posted by the Russian blog site MilitaryRussia.ru on Telegram and widely shared on other social media platforms showed the missile veering off course immediately after launch before cartwheeling upside down, losing power, and then crashing a short distance from the launch site. The missile ejected a component before it hit the ground, perhaps as part of a payload salvage sequence, according to Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva.

The crash was accompanied by a fireball and a noxious reddish-brown cloud, the telltale sign of a toxic mix of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide used to fuel Russia’s most powerful ICBMs. Satellite images taken since Friday show a crater and burn scar near the missile silo.

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/the-missile-meant-to-strike-fear-in-russias-enemies-fails-once-again/

[SheltieLover]

1. More ruskie engineering

[mr715]

2. Remember maybe 10 years ago

they hush hush might've nuked themselves in one of their secret cities?

[ancianita]

3. What will always be their problem: it's not their missiles, it's their faulty delivery system. It will continue because

of the brain drain that's hit Russia. Recent figures show that 820,000 to 920,000 -- maybe more -- have left Russia to avoid military conscription and political oppression. Since 2022 over 650,000 haven't returned.

They escape to former Soviet states like Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, due to visa-free travel, proximity & lower cost of living, or move to Serbia, Turkey, Montenegro, Germany, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Anywhere on earth has more warmth and light than Russia.

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. They put the blast in Oblast.

[liberalla]

5. TexasTowlie posted video yesterday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353656