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60% of Russian missiles fail in the field
- eimrine 5y agoWhat is considered as "fail"?
- quantified 5y ago> can include anything from launch failures to a missile failing to explode on impact.
- eimrine 5y agoIf people or/and expensive gear were too protected for that kind of missile was it fail in the field?
- thfuran 5y agoBy that definition, sure. As long as the protection included something that actively broke the missiles.
- quantified 5y agoIf they were protected from the explosion? By that definition, no. It worked. Just not well enough.
- sschueller 5y agoMissing the target and hitting civilians? Is it a war crime if your missle misses its target because of failure?
- eimrine 5y agoDouble event like missing the target and anyway hitting some civilians is rare, let us be honest. Hitting some special civilians might be not a failure for an attacker.
- tamaharbor 5y agoPerhaps Russian soldiers are purposely sabotaging the missiles?
- eimrine 5y agoSo, they decided to launch more at once: https://theins.ru/news/249702 https://theins.ru/news/249702