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submitted 6 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.

High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows extensive damage.

A crater approximately 60 meters wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, along with visible damage in the surrounding area that was not present in images taken earlier in the month.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Extremely angry at my military for naming it's unlimited genocide machine "Big Evil Monster" rather than "Widdle Fuzzy Bunny Wabbit".

Almost don't even want them to use it anymore.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Can just give it a simple code. We don’t need fun names for this stuff.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

We actually need the fun names. The point is that barely-educated Private Joe in the military remembers what it is and how it looks like, and does not mix it up with other things if he sees it.

It's not a nickname, it's an official reporting name.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Satan 2 literally is a nickname.

The official NATO reporting name is SS-X-29

The official Russian name is RS-28

this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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