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| Putin's invasion stalling because majority of bombs are failing to explode | |
| 2022-03-27 | |
[YouTube] BLUF: The Telegraph reports that Russian bombs have a 60% failure rate.
One of the staples on social media accounts reporting from Ukraine has been the very high rate of cruise missiles that have failed to detonate. Problems with fuzing are not unknown. The most famous example of this is the Mark 6 exploder used in the Mark 14 and Mark 15 torpedoes of the US Navy until September 1943. The flaws of the exploder and the torpedo produced a dud rate of over 50% in the standard submarine torpedo. The problem was caused by the Navy weapons designers wanting to avoid the cost of a field trial. Precision-guided munitions are essential in modern warfare. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in Ukraine, the proliferation of air defense systems, particularly MANPADS, has made flight below 10,000 feet very unhealthy. By the same token, dropping gravity bombs from above 10,000 feet, given the skill level of the Russian Air Force, which flew eight hours per month before the war, is not much better than using a trebuchet. If this report is accurate, it speaks to massive manufacturing and possibly engineering design problems in the Russian arms industry.
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| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #7 So the Russian advance is slowed because they fear their own unexploded munitions will blow them up? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-03-27 16:27 |
| #6 Putin's invasion stalling because majority of bombs are failing to explode and incompetent Russian military and pissed off Ukrainians! FIFY |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-03-27 14:26 |
| #5 post conflict Ukraine can build enormous monument made of damaged tanks, etc. Could be a great tourist attraction. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-03-27 12:20 |
| #4 It will take much equipment and many years to defuse and remove the warheads and Ukranian mines too. Sounds like a good career for Russian POW's |
| Posted by: Slappy 2022-03-27 11:51 |
| #3 It will take much equipment and many years to defuse and remove the warheads and Ukranian mines too. Most of the demining machinery was destroyed in Mariupol and Kharkiv. Once this nonsense war ends. |
| Posted by: Kain 2022-03-27 01:52 |
| #2 The 40% that aren't duds are causing plenty of damage... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-03-27 01:01 |
| #1 Classic Russian manufacturing? Corruption hiding defects? Both? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-03-27 00:15 |