this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
214 points (97.8% liked)
Technology
59534 readers
3196 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
On paper, it's impressive. In person, it's embarrassing.
Well, there's an impressive crater.
Yeah, but the trick is to form that crater away from your launchpad.
It would be impressive were it properly maintained using the funds allocated only for the stated goal.
But I'd expect that to not be the case.
And also when a significant part of the chain is interested only in stealing, there will be negative selection. Everybody capable of learning will leave for greener pastures. Those who remain will be dull and full of themselves.
To put that into perspective, the circumference of the earth is ~24,000 miles. From my rough Google Earth calculations, the stated range covers the entire planet except for a tiny sliver of Antarctica and a bit of the ocean nearby.
Why would Russia need a missile with that range? Unless they just really want to take out New Zealand first, it kinda seems like they just picked the largest sensible range value (12,000 miles, halfway around the planet) and then fudged it down a bit because why would you need to fire a missile more than halfway around the planet? Just fire it in the opposite direction.