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Is there a particularly high failure rate with these missiles or is this a widespread problem in systems where the engine ignites after launch? What do they do
by jrumbut 5y ago
Is there a particularly high failure rate with these missiles or is this a widespread problem in systems where the engine ignites after launch?
What do they do after? Is the site repaired? Scrapped?
- PaulHoule 5y agoMost accounts are that those failures are "rare"; the missile is sealed in a canister so it's likely to be a defective missile from the factory, not some mistake on the part of the operators. It happens enough that there are a handful of videos on Youtube. Similar failures happen with vertically launched missiles from ships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydsm1uzkNu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydsm1uzkNu4