NonCredibleDefense @sh.itjust.works threelonmusketeers @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly

arstechnica.com Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly

All that's left of the Russian missile silo is a big hole in the ground.

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James Acton, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote on X that the before-and-after imagery of the Sarmat missile silo was "very persuasive that there was a big explosion."

Glad they got an expert to weigh in on this...
- I mean, how am i supposed to know if there's an explosion happened just because it happen to have a giant-ass crater?
  
  It's weird how explosions often take place where craters are
  
  TBF it could have just been an underground facility collapsing due to the stress from a rocket launch.
It’s very funny to me how much nonsense is in this article.

What I mean by that is that the satellite photos - they look like Cuban missile crisis photos. I understand why they would mask the capability of spy tech, but I can get clearer imagery of my house from google.
And they don’t know when the launch failure occurred? There are plenty of seismographs that would pick up a large explosion like that. Psh.
- I understand why they would mask the capability of spy tech
  
  Then why are you confused?
  
  My comment said I was amused.
  
  What point are you trying to make, or what angle are you trying to get at?
Where did the roads go? These are very weird pictures imo. Instead of before and after it looks like an after and before, with edits.
- Turns out that blowing up a hundred tons of rocket fuel underground will make some dirt land on top of roads.
  
  The ones closer to the silo are probably part of the rubble, the ones further away are likely just buried.
  
  If you want some idea of what blowing up an ICBMs worth of rocketsfuel will do: in 1980, a US serviceman dropped a spanner in a nuclear missile silo. That led to a fuel leak and the explosion from it sent the warhead flying THROUGH the 750 ton silo door and over threehundred meters away. There are some amazing books on the Damascus Silo incident.
  
  I totally forgot about dirt. I was only thinking of rubble and the initial blast.
  
  The book. Command and Control about the incident is like 600 pages and it was so good I read it in a weekend. Highly recommended.
- Yes, totally a psyop. No way an underground explosion could have spread soil in the streets around! /s
@threelonmusketeers When you test that superweapon of you:

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