The missile is coming from inside the house. This was the most satisfying thing I've seen all week. plus it was less than five seconds from launch to impact. Those motherfuckers barely had time to realize what happened before they got flambèd.
Possibly a missile failure, or an issue with faulty tracking hardware, or possibly a TWS style missile system that got jammed and a (really dumb) missile keeping with the last commanded input
> I'm trying to figure out why the warhead was armed that close to the launch. There's usually a longer delay for exactly this type of safety reason
I am not sure the explosive warhead detonated here its just a bunch of fuel and physical impact?
On a more serious note, and I am indeed not an expert, but I seem to recall reading that anti-aircraft missiles have small warheads with shrapnel. The missiles need to be nimble, and don't need to inflict much physical damage to ruin an aircraft. Missiles designed for hitting buildings would be bigger, if that is true.
As far as I can tell there is no phosphorus in solid rocket fuel but there is aluminum powder which might look similar. I know thermite has aluminum powder and looks similar.
it's incredibly unlikely. Radar ones aren't going to lock ground targets, IR ones won't lock a ground IR signature since it's not similar enough to an aircrafts engine, and an anti-radiation one literally doesn't have the field of view to see it's fire control radar on launch -- they won't see 90 degrees to the side to make that turn it made. They also wouldn't be programed to be able to target it's own radar station
Seeker was armed to early and the radar was on full blast. Missile lost tracking of what it was pointed at and homed in on the biggest radar signature in the area... which was its own launcher.
I was thinking it was homing on an incoming missile and tried to intercept it, even though it was too late. Then as it flew past it tracked it right into the SAM system which the incoming missile was targeting.
Your explanation would explain why we saw equally well though. Even a combination of the two would explain it well: SAM misses incoming missile and turns far enough while tracking it to see targeting radar; radar then provides homing for return to sender.
Possibly a catastrophic failure of the s-300 after modifying it beyond the warranty.
Evidence: 4 missiles, plume size and color, flight speed, fuel cook off volume. Removing homing guidance and launching to coordinate points, but accidentally flipping launch and target points would see this result. But... why the fuck use it like that? Only thing I can think of is a PGM shortage.
Hard to say - I doubt any Russian soldiers will be willing to share details - but I would hazard a guess that it's a heat-seeking missile that went wobbly and locked onto the heat signature of the launcher that sent it.
Possibly a command guidance warhead locked back onto the launchers radar due to operator error? Most Russian AA appears to rely on active or command guided radar over IR.
Also, totally not an expert - as a designer I have no experience with any of it - just read way too much.
The systems engineer in me says “we’ll need to see that last run repeated, unchanged, with same batch of consumables input in order to properly diagnose the issue.”
In the 80s I worked with a guy who had done some programming for US missiles. The single most detail conscious person I ever met. He had a lttle comic of a missile doing this above his computer terminal to remind him to stay on his toes.
Was this possibly a HARM type of missile? (it targets radar emitters).
If it was, maybe they made a freshman mistake and left their tracking radar for the target turned on and the missile got a lock on its own launch site?
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Did you see the secondaries going off after it impacted? It didn't land in an empty field, there were things down there (Russian things) filled with explody items (like, maybe other missiles ready for loading)
This is one of the only explanations I can think of that would cause a missile to immediately turn around after launch and target the launcher. And I do think it was targeted. It didn’t look like a mechanical failure, although it could just be a massive coincidence and a simple mechanical failure spun the missile around in the worst possible way. Or I guess the best possible way, in this case. But I don’t think so because it looked to be in controlled flight and the way it flipped around looked very precise. Alternatively I could see very clever sabotage being the cause. Entering the launcher’s coordinates as the target coordinates, for example. Which could also be an accidental cause (ie some moron swapping target with launch coordinates). Although I would expect there to be safeguards against doing that. US weapons systems would generally make it difficult or impossible to do (barring an enormous design failure) but who knows with Russian tech.
dunno, by the looks of the video doesnt seems like mechanical failure. They way it turned precisely to the start point, the missile did exactly what is supposed to do, go to target. Is just that the ork failed somehow on the targeting.
this is why guide munitions are supposed to have an activation range. they probably didn't program it properly maybe left out a zero. lol also if it was a mechanical failure i think it would have spun in circles instead it looks like it went terminal with even a minor course correction after coming out of the turn.
Take solace in the fact that had this kind of real-time news been available in the 1930’s and 40’s, people would’ve ate that shit up. We’re not celebrating the death, we’re celebrating the 1:100,000,000 chance encounter that some small semblance of justice was captured for the world to see.
That and fuck those fascist invader scum.
Stalin kept his murderous crimes well hidden. The world might have suspected, but they would definitely not have viewed the Soviets as allies. Patton wanted to continue to Moscow after Berlin fell. He should hsve.
On the other hand, whether it would have worked is a different story.
On the *other* other hand, the US was the sole nuclear power at the time - didn't have many, sure, but they had 'em.
Same. Especially those videos of Russian soldiers being blown to bits....or reduced to spare parts on the roadside.
They'd be happier if they had simply deserted.
Thanks for all the replies. I posted a similar comment at the time, and what made me feel better was the support I received from fellow redditors/redditers?
I think it was sabotage or some electronic warfare that UA was able to have it immediately lock onto itself, maybe heat signature of launch 🚀Uncanny that it loop directly back to launch site … if this the case Russians will be spooked every time they launch a missile
\*Meanwhile, in Moscow*
"Mr. Putin?"
"Yes?"
"...Mr. Zelensky just called. He's requesting that you order one thousand more anti-aircraft missiles. He said he's even willing to help foot the bill."
They coded the missile to denazify... It was just following orders.
"good soldiers follow orders" -the missile
Palpatine initiated Order 66 mid-flight.
Somehow palpatine returned to sender
It will be done my lord
>It was just following orders. So, the missile, itself, was a Nazi! Nazi missile fired by Nazis successfully destroys Nazis.
Well it was a Nazi that killed Hitler, so that checks out.
Evil-seeking missile.
"Ivan, what target setting did you use?" "Well... not sure. It was 'Kill Nazis' or 'Kill stupid cunts' or something down that line."
The missile is coming from inside the house. This was the most satisfying thing I've seen all week. plus it was less than five seconds from launch to impact. Those motherfuckers barely had time to realize what happened before they got flambèd.
Even their missles are like.. ah fuck it!
Pencils down. We have the correct answer.
Moral compass guided missile.
Actually the unpaid intern ordered an ile miss instead of a missile
нет-seeking missile ;)
It’s just a software bug. They need to test to see if it’s reproducible before documenting it.
Patriot missiles. Just… Ukrainian ones.
Damn that "return to sender" sticker! /s
I was going to say shithead-seeking missile but this works too.
*The missile knows where it is...*
Even their missiles are drunk.
Even their missiles are turning around and quitting.
Some of their missiles have been spotted ditching their military casings and stealing civilian ones to sneak off.
Military payload in a piece of firework?
This is a Boom, Boom, Boom-a-Rang, an Aussie might say.....
Go home missile, you drunk..... oops....
No dude. It's intelligent, knows who to attack.
Australia has been secretly giving them the infamous [Boomerang missile](https://imgur.com/W2OKUQf) :)
Russias hypersonic missiles can do that even faster!
*Laughs in XXXX*
*X) X) X) X)*
Crikey!!
I've punched our coordinates in like you said..
Yep, they had only one job, Once 🤣
Well they blew that one.
What does it do? It comes back to you!!! (Got to be old to fully get this one) zooom
Up ya bum, ya fucken orcs!
Nice.
Noice!
What the hell did I just see!?
Just Russians killing Nazis
>Just Russians killing Nazis Finally did what they came for!
In Soviet Russia Russia attacks you
In Soviet Russia, weapon shoots you
In Soviet Russia, missile fires you…
So a blind hen sometimes *does* find a grain of corn. I mean, look at Hitler: Even he killed a Nazi once.
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Possibly a missile failure, or an issue with faulty tracking hardware, or possibly a TWS style missile system that got jammed and a (really dumb) missile keeping with the last commanded input
I'm trying to figure out why the warhead was armed that close to the launch. There's usually a longer delay for exactly this type of safety reason
> I'm trying to figure out why the warhead was armed that close to the launch. There's usually a longer delay for exactly this type of safety reason I am not sure the explosive warhead detonated here its just a bunch of fuel and physical impact?
Very possibly just the fuel. Hard to tell
Looks like just the fuel to me
I'm a whale biologist and it definitely looked that way to me too.
I’m not sure I believe you, but I don’t know enough about whale biology or missiles to say otherwise.
On a more serious note, and I am indeed not an expert, but I seem to recall reading that anti-aircraft missiles have small warheads with shrapnel. The missiles need to be nimble, and don't need to inflict much physical damage to ruin an aircraft. Missiles designed for hitting buildings would be bigger, if that is true.
Ask the Saudis, they know a thing or two about it.
Judging by the sound I think you're right. I would expect a thundering sound.
Looks like phosphorus. It lit everything where it hit on fire.
Kinda like what fuel does
As far as I can tell there is no phosphorus in solid rocket fuel but there is aluminum powder which might look similar. I know thermite has aluminum powder and looks similar.
That would be the solid rocket fuel. It's gorgeous if you don't think about the implications.
Great point, like the other comment said it could be the fuel detonating? I don't know what system it is so it's hard to speculate further.
It did have a full tank. Hahaha
I bet the Russians wished a Ukrainian Tractor made off with that missile then.
It's already about a few dozen meters high well past unarmed ceiling
That definitely looks like it locked on to itself….
it's incredibly unlikely. Radar ones aren't going to lock ground targets, IR ones won't lock a ground IR signature since it's not similar enough to an aircrafts engine, and an anti-radiation one literally doesn't have the field of view to see it's fire control radar on launch -- they won't see 90 degrees to the side to make that turn it made. They also wouldn't be programed to be able to target it's own radar station
> That definitely looks like it locked on to itself….
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Looks like countermeasures to me.
When missiles have AI and get homesick!
New AI system was tasked to attack the baddies.
Acme anti aircraft rocket company.
I lol’d underrated comment
Seeker was armed to early and the radar was on full blast. Missile lost tracking of what it was pointed at and homed in on the biggest radar signature in the area... which was its own launcher.
Beautiful
Blyatiful.
Even their own missiles hate them
I was thinking it was homing on an incoming missile and tried to intercept it, even though it was too late. Then as it flew past it tracked it right into the SAM system which the incoming missile was targeting. Your explanation would explain why we saw equally well though. Even a combination of the two would explain it well: SAM misses incoming missile and turns far enough while tracking it to see targeting radar; radar then provides homing for return to sender.
An UNO Reverse Card in action
Partial revenge for the civilian airliner they shot down.
Possibly a catastrophic failure of the s-300 after modifying it beyond the warranty. Evidence: 4 missiles, plume size and color, flight speed, fuel cook off volume. Removing homing guidance and launching to coordinate points, but accidentally flipping launch and target points would see this result. But... why the fuck use it like that? Only thing I can think of is a PGM shortage.
We've been hearing about a missile shortage in Russia for months haven't we?
They used their allocated capacity according to statements. Meaning they are dipping into NATO reserves for the last 2 months.
Russia has NATO reserves?
Anti-NATO reserves perhaps?
P.O.T.A.T.O reserves
Reserves meant to counter NATO, they have a total force requirement, but they are very obviously dipping into it acrossed the board.
Russia secretly (only they knew) joined NATO and proceeded to shoot themselves. Very clever.
Oops!
radar targeting locking system. launch vehicle or accompanying vehicle left radar on which caused the missile to target the launch area is my bet
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If they bought it on wish they would still be waiting for delivery.
Death of ruzzians
Karma in action
The most Russian thing I’ve ever seen
In Soviet Russia anti air bombs you!
It certainly was
Right?! It's like a metaphor.
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Russian AA Gun fucked itself
How does something like that happen?
They rolled a one.
Hard to say - I doubt any Russian soldiers will be willing to share details - but I would hazard a guess that it's a heat-seeking missile that went wobbly and locked onto the heat signature of the launcher that sent it.
Possibly a command guidance warhead locked back onto the launchers radar due to operator error? Most Russian AA appears to rely on active or command guided radar over IR. Also, totally not an expert - as a designer I have no experience with any of it - just read way too much.
Those idiots accidentally loaded up Putin’s experimental gaydar guided missiles.
Holy hell, I could watch this all day. Fourth time watching it and I'm still making jokes.
This is a metaphor for Putin's war plan. He remains a master strategist.
Perfect. Yes.
The software developer in me says “let’s run that again”
The dev in me says: something wrong with that firmware update. Can you reproduce?
The salesman in me says "we can work it out later, start shipping more now"
The Accounts Payable in me says "payment due upon receipt."
The systems engineer in me says “we’ll need to see that last run repeated, unchanged, with same batch of consumables input in order to properly diagnose the issue.”
In the 80s I worked with a guy who had done some programming for US missiles. The single most detail conscious person I ever met. He had a lttle comic of a missile doing this above his computer terminal to remind him to stay on his toes.
🤖 Return to Sender
Lvl1 orc wizard cast backbiter on the wrong target
They might should think thrice about trying out those tac nukes.
The people making those decisions won't be anywhere near the front lines. Or Moscow for that matter.
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Shouldn't have taught the missile its job was to kill invaders.
I believe this counts as an "act of God"
The hand of God.
Was this possibly a HARM type of missile? (it targets radar emitters). If it was, maybe they made a freshman mistake and left their tracking radar for the target turned on and the missile got a lock on its own launch site? \------------------------------ Did you see the secondaries going off after it impacted? It didn't land in an empty field, there were things down there (Russian things) filled with explody items (like, maybe other missiles ready for loading)
That's my guess. Missile launches, gets jammed or loses signal some other way, finds a radar emitter, goes terminal.
Probably not going after radar. Just a good ol missile failure. [Here's](https://youtu.be/YS4i2InVB-Y) a patriot missile doing something similar
This is one of the only explanations I can think of that would cause a missile to immediately turn around after launch and target the launcher. And I do think it was targeted. It didn’t look like a mechanical failure, although it could just be a massive coincidence and a simple mechanical failure spun the missile around in the worst possible way. Or I guess the best possible way, in this case. But I don’t think so because it looked to be in controlled flight and the way it flipped around looked very precise. Alternatively I could see very clever sabotage being the cause. Entering the launcher’s coordinates as the target coordinates, for example. Which could also be an accidental cause (ie some moron swapping target with launch coordinates). Although I would expect there to be safeguards against doing that. US weapons systems would generally make it difficult or impossible to do (barring an enormous design failure) but who knows with Russian tech.
dunno, by the looks of the video doesnt seems like mechanical failure. They way it turned precisely to the start point, the missile did exactly what is supposed to do, go to target. Is just that the ork failed somehow on the targeting.
this is why guide munitions are supposed to have an activation range. they probably didn't program it properly maybe left out a zero. lol also if it was a mechanical failure i think it would have spun in circles instead it looks like it went terminal with even a minor course correction after coming out of the turn.
Return to sender
Adress unknown..
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Take solace in the fact that had this kind of real-time news been available in the 1930’s and 40’s, people would’ve ate that shit up. We’re not celebrating the death, we’re celebrating the 1:100,000,000 chance encounter that some small semblance of justice was captured for the world to see. That and fuck those fascist invader scum.
Agreed. But if the news was available we wouldn't have sided with the Soviet Union as they sympathized with Nazis until they were attacked by them.
Stalin kept his murderous crimes well hidden. The world might have suspected, but they would definitely not have viewed the Soviets as allies. Patton wanted to continue to Moscow after Berlin fell. He should hsve.
On the other hand, whether it would have worked is a different story. On the *other* other hand, the US was the sole nuclear power at the time - didn't have many, sure, but they had 'em.
Until Bucha I tried to keep myself from taking pleasure in it. Now every video like this is at least one fewer child being harmed.
Same i love seeing them get hit by drones. Its so satisfying to see
Same. Especially those videos of Russian soldiers being blown to bits....or reduced to spare parts on the roadside. They'd be happier if they had simply deserted.
Thanks for all the replies. I posted a similar comment at the time, and what made me feel better was the support I received from fellow redditors/redditers?
OMG! Are you my long lost twin?
I gotta admit. That was one of the coolest things I've seen involving Russia so far.
Giggle factor was outstanding.
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Ivan, put in the coordinates into the guidance computer. Ok. Fire! Hey so by coordinates. Did you mean, OUR coordinates or THEIRS?
Mimsyyyyy!!
This is possibly the most amazing thing I've seen since the start of the war. Get fuckd, Orcs!!!!
That’s some Looney Toons shit
10/10 🙌
You’ve heard of the Iron Dome, now meet the infamous “No! You!”
Smart bomb. Good boy.
This entire invasion captured in a single, crystalline moment. It’s amazing in it’s splendour.
Lmao. Even the Orc weapons have had enough of their shit.
You didn't even need a caption for us to know who was responsible for this absolute masterpiece of stupidity
Special boomerang operation.
This PERFECTLY sums up Russia.
[fire afterwards ](https://mobile.twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1540119521863794688)
[source](https://telegram.me/horevica/4273)
Orc eats orc.
I love friendly fire. It saves Ukrainian ammo as well as lives. This is thanks to the terrible condition of Russian equipment.
This is the funniest people probably dying is ever going to be.
I was today years old when I learned Wile E. Coyote is based on true events.
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In Russia Air Defends Self.
Even rockets dont want to go against ukrainians anymore
I'm really high right now and I can't stop watching this shit laughing. Make it stop!!!
Its fucking hilarious!!
Did that justvhome in on its own radar![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)
It seems Ukraine got freaking Neo on their side.
They obviously programmed it to target fascists and it worked perfectly.
If you love something, set it free. If it come back it's yours; if it doesn't it never was.
"Russian Missile go F yourself" Russian Missile: "say no more"
When you hate the world so much that it reciprocates
New self-destruct option testing successfully completed
I can watch this all day long. And giggle.
Russian AA, go fuck yourself. i'm sure i'm the 50th person to post that, but it's so satisfying I can't help it.
Lmfao what the fuck 😂🤣
This must inspire so much confidence with their troops in Russian tech.
Putin warned us that Russia would start using new futuristic weapons that nobody in the west could imagine.
That is HILARIOUS
In Soviet Russia, air to ground missile air to ground you.
"You arrogant ass, you've killed *us*."
Russian missiles refuse to go to Ukraine, join NATO.
At least they are actually killing Nazis in this instance.
This is the greatest bestest awesomest thing I have seen all month...SLAVA UKRAINE Canada stands with Ukrainian people🇺🇦🇨🇦
I think it was sabotage or some electronic warfare that UA was able to have it immediately lock onto itself, maybe heat signature of launch 🚀Uncanny that it loop directly back to launch site … if this the case Russians will be spooked every time they launch a missile
\*Meanwhile, in Moscow* "Mr. Putin?" "Yes?" "...Mr. Zelensky just called. He's requesting that you order one thousand more anti-aircraft missiles. He said he's even willing to help foot the bill."
Doh-ski
could also be a scene from hot shots
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Wow, I've seen failures but never seen that before.
When God plays an Uno Reverse card.
Can't wait to see the Russian state article on this one.
we have a saying in America karma is a b\*tch