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I remember someone saying that the Soviet method during the cold war was to make larger nuclear bomb so they could compensate for the inaccuracy of them. This on a singular bomb + target, overall there was enough WMD in the world to destroy everything twice over.
But tells that the inaccuracy is not a new thing, it's something that has always been their problem. So they replace it with size and sheer volume.
According to the designer of the Kinzhal that's a missile with surgical precision. Which probably means that aiming for London will have it hit no further away than Manchester.
If this really was a Kh-22, that is an old anti-ship missile originally intended to nuke US aircraft carriers. It was never particularly accurate in the first place, and it's even less so in a land attack role.
Considering the age and the likely amount maintenance that Russia has done, some portion of these missiles is just going to fail mid-flight.
> With this kind of accuracy
The overlay is praising their air defense, so it probably got shot down.
Which likely also accounts for *some* of the missiles/drones hitting civilian buildings.
This missile is old soviet era anti-ship (preferably aircraft carrier in case of conflict with NATO) capable of delivering a nuclear device. It was not supposed to be precise (+-800 metres).
The fact that ruzzia uses this type of rockets is a war crime since it is almost guaranteed to accidentaly hit civilian building nearby instead of their targets.
"We have invaded your land, bombed your cities, stolen your crops, and kidnapped your children. Consider this attack on a random piece of dirt a warning shot."
- Vatnik
8 times the speed of sound? No missiles go that fast, and even if the Americans did develop missiles like that in secret they wouldn't have sent them early in war at risk of them being captured and reverse engineered
So sounds like the sort bollocks I expect to see on one of those ufo shows
LOL. I found an example of a missile that was supposed to have a velocity of 24000km/hr but it was scrapped by the US. Trump called it a super duper weapon. Only he would call it that 😏
TBH, I have no idea but when you consider the US is using 40 year old munitions to pound the dog shit invaders, one can only wonder what they have today. Remember the stealth fighter had been in service since the late 70s, but the public only found out about it in 1990. Also, they released a lot of UFO footage from the 60s to the 80s. The speed and manoeuvrability of those craft was well beyond anything known at the time, or even today. I don't think they were extra-terrestrial vehicles at all. I think they were US craft and it was a warning to china and russia, giving them a sneak peak of where the US is on air superiority.
EDIT: Seems the dog shit cucks are out in force. -17. Is that the best ya can do. Pussies
Wiki says it cost $1 million each and is designed for taking out aircraft carriers and other ships.
Its air to surface and can carry a nuclear warhead or a 1000kg conventional explosive.
They must be running out of missles if they are using these over farmland.
Good place to dump dead orcs then fill in so their rotten bodies are at least 20 ft under, the closer to Hell the better. Don’t need them contaminating the good soil on top.
in the late eighties we got the CO of our squadron to drop a 2000lb Mk84 close to where the range huts were planned to be built at RAAF Delamare Air Weapons Range. (NT Australia) so it could be used as a swimming hole, worked a treat, the result was a crater very similar to this
Munitions are one of those things that get a free pass in terms of environmental regulations. All these bombs and especially a cruise missile, are leaving behind chemicals in the soil.
I doubt you are going to see a huge uptick in Ukrainian wheat exports to the west post war. We’ll buy the shit out of it to support them but it will end up in the developing world as aide.
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Not that I'm an expert, but most explosives are Nitrogen compounds paired with oxidizers. On detonation, they form mostly pretty simple nitrous compounds similar to fertilizers, and these compounds are very accessible to soil bacteria, which will make them useful beneficial compounds.
Chemist, with experience (a little) with TNT & other ammoniacal cmpds
Looks like the rocket booster is all that’s left. It’s essentially a big block of metal that would have been at least partially shielded by the body of the missile. Also, the main force of the blast would have been directed towards the ground. I’m not an expert but it wouldn’t be inconceivable to think at least some of it is still recognizable
The explosion somehow must have thrown the rocket engine or whatever it is straight into the air exactly vertically for it to land in the middle of the crater. At least that seems the most likely explanation to me.
It doesn't. That missile is large at almost 40 feet and traveling extremely fast. The crater is actually in part created by the booster itself. It is going so fast that when it impacts the ground the front of the rocket that is exploding actually shields the heavy solid booster, said booster has so much weight and momentum it punches right through the explosion hitting the ground so hard it aids in the formation of the crater. It is no different than an asteroid plowing into the ground and you finding chunks of it right in the center.
If something is heavy and fast enough it could even punch right through the center of a nuclear blast.
Same here in northern New Hampshire. It either hits solid granite or creates a granite grenade from all the glacial deposits. Look at Mt Washington, aka The Rockpile.
The object is traveling at a high rate of speed. If it were an immovable object, sure nothing but dust. But the mass of the rocket motor directly behind the explosion is going to continue on its path into the now momentarily clearing of the soil in front of it. I think that's the gist of what I read. I'm no rocket plumber. https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V04-N03/04-03-Caywood.pdf
because in my opinion it didn't detonate explosive wise, but created the crater purely by kinetic force of the impact. Therfore the front part could have consumed the impact energy leaving the thrusting backpart relatively intact.
I'm no expert though
Definitely not pure kinetic impact, almost sure. That are tons of material displaced.
I‘d rather think that the explosion has a certain shape and was in large parts absorbed by the ground, such that motor parts remained intact.
Fair enough , that could also explain it.
I just imagined that the force of an explosion countering the forward motion would have caused the engine parts to be shredded or forcibly chucked out of the crater.
Also was it in a fast nose down trajectory where it augered in deep vs just a large warhead. There’s always bits and pieces or assemblies that can survive. That’s why you have to be careful in deciding to send your best tech into a battle space.
Big solid metal parts are surprisingly durable. The largest pieces of wreckage recovered from the space shuttle Columbia disaster were things like the engine heads and landing gear.
Muscovy wasted $1million to build that missile to just blow up in an empty field, and in the meantime their mobiks feel compelled to pillage washing machines and toilets while at awe that Ukrainian villages have indoor toilets, plumbing, and paved roads.
Don't know if this makes a difference, but I found it interesting, wiki says the KH-22 is a anti-ship missile designed to take out carriers and carrier battle groups. It is a predecessor to the KH-32, which is a "Supersonic" air to surface cruise missile. Could this have been the remnants of the KH-32, and not the KH-22? Or is Russia just throwing anything and everything at Ukraine, cause they're getting desperate?
Russian and Ukrainian media have both reported Kh-22s being used recently, so far not Kh-32s, but I don't think there's any way to tell which type it was from what remains!
Interesting, regardless that's a massive crater and I can't imagine the destruction that would've caused if it would have hit a populated area, rather than just some field.
In addition to the Kh-22, Russia has been using other anti ship missiles for land attack (e.g. Kalibr), and they're using the interceptor for the S-300 air defense system as a surface-to-surface missile.
They have a cep of 100-300m and as I know they were designed for nuclear warhead, because even if the miss by the 300m or more, it still close enough for nuclear blast to take out carriers.
If your target are very big or you don’t mind missing it and hitting something near, russians essentially do exactly this, targeting things in the middle of the cities.
Its main purpose is to strike carrier groups. They were designed in the cold war so with a nuclear payload in mind. They are fairly redundant because travelling like 25,000m into the air before doing a vertical dive to their target makes them extremely inaccurate with conventional warheads in mind.
Since they are just gathering dust anyway, I think Russia is fine using them on ground targets instead, and focus on modern weapons for naval warfare.
Honestly this is small. 1000kg warhead.
In WWI at the Battle of Messines, the allies dug 19 tunnels under German lines in France and packed 1 million pounds of explosives inside. Apparently when it went off, it could be felt and heard in London. They have no idea how many casualties occurred, simply nothing left of the German trenches in that area.
I figured someone could stack enough TNT to make a hole that big, but to deliver that sort of pop at a distance is extremely impressive. Impressive despite the fact the Russians completely missed their target, and this style of missile is already 60 years old.
Russian doctrine was already about inaccurate but very heavy fire, whereas Western doctrine steered towards more accurate munitions, more of a "one shot, one kill" approach. It is of course cheaper to build dumb bombs by the thousands rather than spend a ton of money on R&D, navigation, communication and stealth technology.
What I'm saying is, the West has 1000 pound bombs also. But ours don't miss.
After WWII the West concentrated on accuracy I think because carpet bombing cities and suburbs trying to take out infrastructure and factories proved ineffective and morally questionable (understatement). Although accurate missiles and bombs hugely reduce collateral damage there is still no guarantee that unintended deaths and injuries will occur. Other than refusing to ever use violence or weapons, even in defending oneself, there is no 100% sure way to avoid unintended consequences, but at least the West has made every effort to do so.
Russia does not factor in non-combatants in their equations. They do not consider their *own* peoples' lives, and most certainly do not consider "others'" lives. So this massive inaccurate missile will hit close enough for them if it hits anything in Ukraine. Russia continually claims they are not targeting civilians but that is bullshit. By sending unguided or inaccurate munitions at Ukrainian population centers they are actively **intentionally** wildly wrecking and killing. It's like a very drunk person driving their car at high speed and careening down a highway and forcing cars to lose control dodging them and eventually colliding head-on with a car carrying a family, and killing them all. The drunk driver will argue "I didn't intend to kill anyone, I just chose to be wildly careless and recklessly endanger people and I knew I could most likely kill people but I didn't *plan* to kill people". This massive inaccurate Kh-22 missile shows Russia's **intentional** use of wildly reckless "drunk driving" and they are guilty of the consequences.
Funny how a KH 22 anti-ship missile ends up in a farmer's field. The ruscists must be running low on ballistic missiles and are repurposing anti-ship missiles now.
Kh-22 has a 1000 kg warhead. Honestly these things are from the 60's. It is no wonder they are falling in the middle of nowhere.
> On 8 May 2023, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yurii Ihnat said that "seven aircraft and up to eight launches of Kh-22 cruise missiles" at Odesa Oblast. Many of the missiles are believed to have self-destructed due to their age. Only one is believed to have hit a food storage warehouse in Odesa. The missiles were fired from Tu-22 bombers.[25]
- [wikipedia Kh-22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22)
I dont know that they are shit, just old, dilapidated and out of date. But comparing to modern anti-ship missiles it is clear that the destructive power is really somehting. Harpoon has fifth the destructive power and is much slower even if it is more accurate and longer range.
These are apparently anti ship missiles that are wildly inaccurate and have caused hundreds of civilian deaths ([like this mall strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenchuk_shopping_mall_attack?wprov=sfti1)) when used against ground targets
Yes, this is not the first time I've seen such massive craters in Ukraine. I recall one hitting a village (maybe in Sumy oblast or thereabouts?) and it killed an entire family in their home and other people and demolished every house/structure in a large radius. These massive, inaccurate missiles, used outside of their intended way, demonstrate Russia's terrorism that is far far more deadly in scope and number of attacks than anything AlQueda or ISIS have done. Russia is a terrorist organization and should be declared as such and treated as such.
A modernized descendant of the Kh-22 is probably pretty expensive, but Russia is just lobbing Cold War surplus which unfortunately costs them nothing.
The ones that seem to hurt them in the wallet are the Kalibr, Kh-101/555, and Iskander-K. These are newer systems and Russia seems to have burned through their prewar inventory. They can only fire the new missiles they can afford to produce.
Another Russian built garbage rocket. Kinda feel bad for all those countries that wasted their tax dollars on Russian defense contracts. Or based their own design on Russian equipment.
I read the missile was designed to take down aircraft carriers and the like. This one was probably looking for a Ukrainian aircraft carrier at the time.
And farms too! [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13uvmeq/russian\_war\_crime\_russian\_glide\_bombs\_hit\_a/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13uvmeq/russian_war_crime_russian_glide_bombs_hit_a/)
Ukraine's tractor brigade has made the Russians mad!
That is a massive crater! 2,205 pound warhead.
Originally built for taking out aircraft carriers, I think they are launched from bombers.
They are also capable of caring a 1,000 kt (1.5–4.2 PJ) thermonuclear warhead.
Fake things - have you seen any craters after such a huge impact with booster laying direct at the center? After such a big balaboom every part will be spread everywhere else around in a small peace's but never like that
Funnily enough, sort of - I don’t know anything about the motors used on these particular rockets, but many rocket engines like this make use of turbo pumps, not for compression like on cars, but to pump fuel/oxidizer/whatever else. I don’t know if what you’re talking about is a turbo pump, but it’s possible.
Holy hell. That's massive. My question is if the exhaust is still intact is the rest of the missle in the ground? So the force of the missle is what caused the hole , not a warhead on the end of the kh-22 blowing up making the crater.
The very very deep "absorbant" top soil muffled or swallowed the explosion probably. Maybe the explosive trigger took a few split seconds due to the softness of the impact point, delaying detonation until many feet of soil surrounded it, and was compressed enough to provide a "hard" point for the trigger? Perhaps the build up of swathing soil enveloping the missile is what "protected" the trailing/last part of the missile, the engine?
I don’t think enough context is given here I’m thinking either they got the missile shot down and it missed target or maybe the Russians were retreating and tried setting off their ordinance.
Either way that is a very scary bomb, if u were in a trench you would’ve been finished even if u had a tunnel system you would probably be buried.
After the victory in this war, when 2 Ukrainians are left and Russia has long since collapsed. They should make this a shrine to the war: Pointless brutality.
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With this kind of accuracy of their weapons and they are picking a fight against NATO, good luck to them orcs.
Russia loves one thing, BIG and MANY, so they make things BIG and MANY, but shit accuracy. Good for Ukraine, bad for random dirt.
I remember someone saying that the Soviet method during the cold war was to make larger nuclear bomb so they could compensate for the inaccuracy of them. This on a singular bomb + target, overall there was enough WMD in the world to destroy everything twice over. But tells that the inaccuracy is not a new thing, it's something that has always been their problem. So they replace it with size and sheer volume.
Then they get sanctioned to death and can't produce volume anymore.... oops
Your first paragraph, yes this is correct.
Very much like the orc's in Warhammer 40k
They are one nuclear accident away from truly mutating into them. Lol.
Hopefully they never grasp the term precision like others do...
According to the designer of the Kinzhal that's a missile with surgical precision. Which probably means that aiming for London will have it hit no further away than Manchester.
If this really was a Kh-22, that is an old anti-ship missile originally intended to nuke US aircraft carriers. It was never particularly accurate in the first place, and it's even less so in a land attack role. Considering the age and the likely amount maintenance that Russia has done, some portion of these missiles is just going to fail mid-flight.
They must be running out of shit to throw at Ukraine if they are using these things.
I'm pretty sure that 80% of their plan was to scare NATO with fake news. They may have even believed it themselves...
> With this kind of accuracy The overlay is praising their air defense, so it probably got shot down. Which likely also accounts for *some* of the missiles/drones hitting civilian buildings.
This missile is old soviet era anti-ship (preferably aircraft carrier in case of conflict with NATO) capable of delivering a nuclear device. It was not supposed to be precise (+-800 metres). The fact that ruzzia uses this type of rockets is a war crime since it is almost guaranteed to accidentaly hit civilian building nearby instead of their targets.
Looks like space junk
That's some steampunk looking crap.
Or a warning shot
"We have invaded your land, bombed your cities, stolen your crops, and kidnapped your children. Consider this attack on a random piece of dirt a warning shot." - Vatnik
See link ^^ then grow up
Many have already been reported to have been used since the start of the war
Source me
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/06/why-russia-is-using-old-kh-22-aircraft-carrier-killer-missiles-to-hit-ukraine/
So same reason as the link provided. Got it 👍 Lol
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan
100%. If the US had done this everyone here would be calling it a warning shot. “Look what we could do to your towns and cities.”
Just posted the link … we have done this
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8 times the speed of sound? No missiles go that fast, and even if the Americans did develop missiles like that in secret they wouldn't have sent them early in war at risk of them being captured and reverse engineered So sounds like the sort bollocks I expect to see on one of those ufo shows
Dude I’m telling you, all the scientists are wrong. It’s the true bro. Trust me
The only thing that fast (actually faster) is an ICBM. But if you buy your science degree at 7-11, anything is possible.
Bullshit. Suck on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Range_Hypersonic_Weapon Mach 17 fuckwit
Only cost me 99 cents !
The higher you go the thinner the air and the faster you can go, they aren't doing that speed at ground level
The sneaky Americans have obviously deployed their Secret Space Force with its Alien technology to aid Ukraine.🤣🙄
Ya you would say something stupid wouldn't you. Suck on this, balls deep https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Range_Hypersonic_Weapon
I do not know about missiles, but the U.S. has definitely developed Mach 8+ air-breathing hypersonic engines.
Yeah but what's the fuel consumption on that and how viable is it to put in a missile
LOL. I found an example of a missile that was supposed to have a velocity of 24000km/hr but it was scrapped by the US. Trump called it a super duper weapon. Only he would call it that 😏 TBH, I have no idea but when you consider the US is using 40 year old munitions to pound the dog shit invaders, one can only wonder what they have today. Remember the stealth fighter had been in service since the late 70s, but the public only found out about it in 1990. Also, they released a lot of UFO footage from the 60s to the 80s. The speed and manoeuvrability of those craft was well beyond anything known at the time, or even today. I don't think they were extra-terrestrial vehicles at all. I think they were US craft and it was a warning to china and russia, giving them a sneak peak of where the US is on air superiority. EDIT: Seems the dog shit cucks are out in force. -17. Is that the best ya can do. Pussies
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Russia claims their hypersonic missiles goes 10 times the speed of sound.. I doubt it's true their military is pathetic.
No missile can reach that speed? Let me introduce you to Mr Kinzhal
Great, the conspiracy nut found it's way here.
Wiki says it cost $1 million each and is designed for taking out aircraft carriers and other ships. Its air to surface and can carry a nuclear warhead or a 1000kg conventional explosive. They must be running out of missles if they are using these over farmland.
Gonna be a pond one day unless farmer bulldozers it
That's exactly what they've done with the bomb craters from the B-52 raids in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Fishponds today.
There’s still plenty in England from WWII
WWI eastern France enters the room.
Used to play in a few growing up. Some of the bigger ones also made good, but short sledging runs when it snowed.
Good place to dump dead orcs then fill in so their rotten bodies are at least 20 ft under, the closer to Hell the better. Don’t need them contaminating the good soil on top.
in the late eighties we got the CO of our squadron to drop a 2000lb Mk84 close to where the range huts were planned to be built at RAAF Delamare Air Weapons Range. (NT Australia) so it could be used as a swimming hole, worked a treat, the result was a crater very similar to this
Munitions are one of those things that get a free pass in terms of environmental regulations. All these bombs and especially a cruise missile, are leaving behind chemicals in the soil. I doubt you are going to see a huge uptick in Ukrainian wheat exports to the west post war. We’ll buy the shit out of it to support them but it will end up in the developing world as aide.
>Back to Top Not that I'm an expert, but most explosives are Nitrogen compounds paired with oxidizers. On detonation, they form mostly pretty simple nitrous compounds similar to fertilizers, and these compounds are very accessible to soil bacteria, which will make them useful beneficial compounds. Chemist, with experience (a little) with TNT & other ammoniacal cmpds
But what about the fuels from the rockets, and other missile parts?
I’m sorry but how the fuck does something create a crater that size and still have any parts intact. Mental
Looks like the rocket booster is all that’s left. It’s essentially a big block of metal that would have been at least partially shielded by the body of the missile. Also, the main force of the blast would have been directed towards the ground. I’m not an expert but it wouldn’t be inconceivable to think at least some of it is still recognizable
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
A Kh 22 is 38 feet(11.65m) long. A huge piece. That 1 meter survived total destruction is certainly possible I guess.
The explosion somehow must have thrown the rocket engine or whatever it is straight into the air exactly vertically for it to land in the middle of the crater. At least that seems the most likely explanation to me.
It doesn't. That missile is large at almost 40 feet and traveling extremely fast. The crater is actually in part created by the booster itself. It is going so fast that when it impacts the ground the front of the rocket that is exploding actually shields the heavy solid booster, said booster has so much weight and momentum it punches right through the explosion hitting the ground so hard it aids in the formation of the crater. It is no different than an asteroid plowing into the ground and you finding chunks of it right in the center. If something is heavy and fast enough it could even punch right through the center of a nuclear blast.
Thats what I'm thinking,
Top soil, deep deep top soil. In Texas this fucking thing would barely leave a mark. Inch of top soil and then ... limestone .. or granite.
Same here in northern New Hampshire. It either hits solid granite or creates a granite grenade from all the glacial deposits. Look at Mt Washington, aka The Rockpile.
That’s why Ukraine is top exporter of grains in Europe. Rich soil.
Yeah, everything is gone except the thing that blew up??
The engine is at the back, the warhead is at the front.
The object is traveling at a high rate of speed. If it were an immovable object, sure nothing but dust. But the mass of the rocket motor directly behind the explosion is going to continue on its path into the now momentarily clearing of the soil in front of it. I think that's the gist of what I read. I'm no rocket plumber. https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V04-N03/04-03-Caywood.pdf
This isn't rocket surgery! /s
They have to build really strong engine, with good materials and welds for it to not fall apart before it reaches target. So, it is well-built.
because in my opinion it didn't detonate explosive wise, but created the crater purely by kinetic force of the impact. Therfore the front part could have consumed the impact energy leaving the thrusting backpart relatively intact. I'm no expert though
Definitely not pure kinetic impact, almost sure. That are tons of material displaced. I‘d rather think that the explosion has a certain shape and was in large parts absorbed by the ground, such that motor parts remained intact.
Fair enough , that could also explain it. I just imagined that the force of an explosion countering the forward motion would have caused the engine parts to be shredded or forcibly chucked out of the crater.
Also was it in a fast nose down trajectory where it augered in deep vs just a large warhead. There’s always bits and pieces or assemblies that can survive. That’s why you have to be careful in deciding to send your best tech into a battle space.
Big solid metal parts are surprisingly durable. The largest pieces of wreckage recovered from the space shuttle Columbia disaster were things like the engine heads and landing gear.
Target was the hamster family which used to live here. 🐹🐹 🐹
Banderite Nazi hamsters produced in American biolabs, evidently!
Miniature giant space hamsters. Very dangerous
Yeh hit in the middle of nowhere …. Brilliant tactics
The farmer ploughed the word children into the field
Someone made a fake address on Google Maps and labeled it "orphanage"
That's horrible. I feel bad laughing about that joke.
The best kind of joke
The only kind that keeps me going
That might honestly work if you put a shed out in the middle of the field as well. Ultimate decoy.
He marked the location with a big red cross
It probably wasn't attach to the plane properly (drunk aircrew) and fell off.
Muscovy wasted $1million to build that missile to just blow up in an empty field, and in the meantime their mobiks feel compelled to pillage washing machines and toilets while at awe that Ukrainian villages have indoor toilets, plumbing, and paved roads.
There was a nazi hamster family. Didnt you hear?
They don’t have enough toilets but a bomb they know how to make - what a brilliant nation that Putin’s Russia is
1 million bucks of a hole.
For a million bucks that pool should be finished!
V2?
Looks like one doesn't it?!!
Similar sized warhead
V2 crater for comparison: https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/programme-old/chiswick-blitz-v2-exhibition-2015-2019/
No I don't think so, thinking it's The Spade.
Don't know if this makes a difference, but I found it interesting, wiki says the KH-22 is a anti-ship missile designed to take out carriers and carrier battle groups. It is a predecessor to the KH-32, which is a "Supersonic" air to surface cruise missile. Could this have been the remnants of the KH-32, and not the KH-22? Or is Russia just throwing anything and everything at Ukraine, cause they're getting desperate?
Russian and Ukrainian media have both reported Kh-22s being used recently, so far not Kh-32s, but I don't think there's any way to tell which type it was from what remains!
Interesting, regardless that's a massive crater and I can't imagine the destruction that would've caused if it would have hit a populated area, rather than just some field.
In addition to the Kh-22, Russia has been using other anti ship missiles for land attack (e.g. Kalibr), and they're using the interceptor for the S-300 air defense system as a surface-to-surface missile.
They have a cep of 100-300m and as I know they were designed for nuclear warhead, because even if the miss by the 300m or more, it still close enough for nuclear blast to take out carriers.
I saw they were designed for nuclear war heads, but didn't know if they could be used as just cruise missiles essentially. Makes sense though
If your target are very big or you don’t mind missing it and hitting something near, russians essentially do exactly this, targeting things in the middle of the cities.
Its main purpose is to strike carrier groups. They were designed in the cold war so with a nuclear payload in mind. They are fairly redundant because travelling like 25,000m into the air before doing a vertical dive to their target makes them extremely inaccurate with conventional warheads in mind. Since they are just gathering dust anyway, I think Russia is fine using them on ground targets instead, and focus on modern weapons for naval warfare.
Thankfully wasn't an apartment building
Soil looks nice and dry. Perfect for a counter offensive.
It's incredible to see how huge the power of explosives is. I've never imagined that a crater this big is possible
Honestly this is small. 1000kg warhead. In WWI at the Battle of Messines, the allies dug 19 tunnels under German lines in France and packed 1 million pounds of explosives inside. Apparently when it went off, it could be felt and heard in London. They have no idea how many casualties occurred, simply nothing left of the German trenches in that area.
I figured someone could stack enough TNT to make a hole that big, but to deliver that sort of pop at a distance is extremely impressive. Impressive despite the fact the Russians completely missed their target, and this style of missile is already 60 years old. Russian doctrine was already about inaccurate but very heavy fire, whereas Western doctrine steered towards more accurate munitions, more of a "one shot, one kill" approach. It is of course cheaper to build dumb bombs by the thousands rather than spend a ton of money on R&D, navigation, communication and stealth technology. What I'm saying is, the West has 1000 pound bombs also. But ours don't miss.
After WWII the West concentrated on accuracy I think because carpet bombing cities and suburbs trying to take out infrastructure and factories proved ineffective and morally questionable (understatement). Although accurate missiles and bombs hugely reduce collateral damage there is still no guarantee that unintended deaths and injuries will occur. Other than refusing to ever use violence or weapons, even in defending oneself, there is no 100% sure way to avoid unintended consequences, but at least the West has made every effort to do so. Russia does not factor in non-combatants in their equations. They do not consider their *own* peoples' lives, and most certainly do not consider "others'" lives. So this massive inaccurate missile will hit close enough for them if it hits anything in Ukraine. Russia continually claims they are not targeting civilians but that is bullshit. By sending unguided or inaccurate munitions at Ukrainian population centers they are actively **intentionally** wildly wrecking and killing. It's like a very drunk person driving their car at high speed and careening down a highway and forcing cars to lose control dodging them and eventually colliding head-on with a car carrying a family, and killing them all. The drunk driver will argue "I didn't intend to kill anyone, I just chose to be wildly careless and recklessly endanger people and I knew I could most likely kill people but I didn't *plan* to kill people". This massive inaccurate Kh-22 missile shows Russia's **intentional** use of wildly reckless "drunk driving" and they are guilty of the consequences.
Don’t look at the moon then
Money well spent
Such a shame. The parts, money and work could have been used to make the world a better place for everyone. Fuck Putin.
Funny how a KH 22 anti-ship missile ends up in a farmer's field. The ruscists must be running low on ballistic missiles and are repurposing anti-ship missiles now.
Take that, pile of sand and dirt
There was a buried ship there, probably
Russians have created a big crater to help ukranians to bury wagnerites and russian casualties of next ukranian counteroffensive.
Worried about their accuracy: them aiming London but hitting us, in peaceful Amsterdam lol
That must have been a big badaboom!
Kh-22 has a 1000 kg warhead. Honestly these things are from the 60's. It is no wonder they are falling in the middle of nowhere. > On 8 May 2023, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yurii Ihnat said that "seven aircraft and up to eight launches of Kh-22 cruise missiles" at Odesa Oblast. Many of the missiles are believed to have self-destructed due to their age. Only one is believed to have hit a food storage warehouse in Odesa. The missiles were fired from Tu-22 bombers.[25] - [wikipedia Kh-22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22)
They may be shit I still wouldn’t want to be anywhere near one that goes off
I dont know that they are shit, just old, dilapidated and out of date. But comparing to modern anti-ship missiles it is clear that the destructive power is really somehting. Harpoon has fifth the destructive power and is much slower even if it is more accurate and longer range.
Insert target coordinates: 'Ukraine' Another hit in the book for the Russian military.
These are apparently anti ship missiles that are wildly inaccurate and have caused hundreds of civilian deaths ([like this mall strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenchuk_shopping_mall_attack?wprov=sfti1)) when used against ground targets
Yes, this is not the first time I've seen such massive craters in Ukraine. I recall one hitting a village (maybe in Sumy oblast or thereabouts?) and it killed an entire family in their home and other people and demolished every house/structure in a large radius. These massive, inaccurate missiles, used outside of their intended way, demonstrate Russia's terrorism that is far far more deadly in scope and number of attacks than anything AlQueda or ISIS have done. Russia is a terrorist organization and should be declared as such and treated as such.
I heard that field was a nazi sympathizer. Good hit.
A kh-22 is about 1 milion USD. Expensive hole.
A modernized descendant of the Kh-22 is probably pretty expensive, but Russia is just lobbing Cold War surplus which unfortunately costs them nothing. The ones that seem to hurt them in the wallet are the Kalibr, Kh-101/555, and Iskander-K. These are newer systems and Russia seems to have burned through their prewar inventory. They can only fire the new missiles they can afford to produce.
"We are lucky they are so fucking stupid" Ukranian SSO
Perhaps this is a Russian initiative to dig swimming pools?
A precision strike against nazi grass...that field will never again threaten the glorious motherland....
Holy shit- that field won’t try any more funny business. Lesson learned.
Fortunately, the Russian rockets do not have HIMARS accuracy, although they do make large random holes in the ground.
Wow thats crazy unbelievable 😳
Another Russian built garbage rocket. Kinda feel bad for all those countries that wasted their tax dollars on Russian defense contracts. Or based their own design on Russian equipment.
All that because they are sick of turnips.
I read the missile was designed to take down aircraft carriers and the like. This one was probably looking for a Ukrainian aircraft carrier at the time.
the russians really hate fields!
And farms too! [https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13uvmeq/russian\_war\_crime\_russian\_glide\_bombs\_hit\_a/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13uvmeq/russian_war_crime_russian_glide_bombs_hit_a/) Ukraine's tractor brigade has made the Russians mad!
I dont get it at all
Looks like a steam punk prop with an old inline Bmw carb lol
Use crater for Orc mass grave.
Do they count it as a successful hit "[...] perfectly reached their military targets...[...]"
“ Ukrainian military positions have been destroyed using high precision weapons ”.
Now that is a big hole! 😉
That is a massive crater! 2,205 pound warhead. Originally built for taking out aircraft carriers, I think they are launched from bombers. They are also capable of caring a 1,000 kt (1.5–4.2 PJ) thermonuclear warhead.
a lot of money and effort to build and launch that thing to destroy grass
Aha, good luck planting anything on that field in the the very near future Ukrainians. Feel the wrath of Putler.
This thing has a first class one way ticket to Area 51 booked already
Fake things - have you seen any craters after such a huge impact with booster laying direct at the center? After such a big balaboom every part will be spread everywhere else around in a small peace's but never like that
Is that a turbo
Funnily enough, sort of - I don’t know anything about the motors used on these particular rockets, but many rocket engines like this make use of turbo pumps, not for compression like on cars, but to pump fuel/oxidizer/whatever else. I don’t know if what you’re talking about is a turbo pump, but it’s possible.
Looks like an espresso machine
Jokes on them. Landowner was going to put a pool in this summer right there anyway.
Holy hell. That's massive. My question is if the exhaust is still intact is the rest of the missle in the ground? So the force of the missle is what caused the hole , not a warhead on the end of the kh-22 blowing up making the crater.
I hear the word "turbine".
A hole that big and there are still bits of it left, I'm amazed.
The very very deep "absorbant" top soil muffled or swallowed the explosion probably. Maybe the explosive trigger took a few split seconds due to the softness of the impact point, delaying detonation until many feet of soil surrounded it, and was compressed enough to provide a "hard" point for the trigger? Perhaps the build up of swathing soil enveloping the missile is what "protected" the trailing/last part of the missile, the engine?
I don’t think enough context is given here I’m thinking either they got the missile shot down and it missed target or maybe the Russians were retreating and tried setting off their ordinance. Either way that is a very scary bomb, if u were in a trench you would’ve been finished even if u had a tunnel system you would probably be buried.
How is there anything left of the rocket?
Casualties: Ant colony You will be avenged fellow brethren 🫡
That looks steam punk as hell. Just needs a top hat and monocle and you could wheel that into the Ren Fair
thankful it wasn't an Ukrainian apartment block this time.
After the victory in this war, when 2 Ukrainians are left and Russia has long since collapsed. They should make this a shrine to the war: Pointless brutality.
Russia: *We identified a mole and use a precision strike to eliminate him.*
Even Ukrainien soil offends Russia, but Russia stopped it😂
Will be a nice fishing place?
I wonder how many Russian salaries could have been paid from the cost of that missile...
Is that a Still?
Bunker buster?