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Russian army’s rocket launch test goes terribly wrong when missile drops straight back down and explodes in front of them
By KATE PICKLES FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 05:02 EST, 22 April 2015

(What goes up, must come down…even something as ‘advanced’ as the S-300. They would have had better luck launching a 1962 Buick into orbit. – LS)

Embarrassing footage has emerged of a missile launch going spectacularly wrong in Russia. The minute-long clip shows the S300 rocket barely managing to take off before plummeting back down to earth. A small thud can be heard and bits of debris fly off as the weapon makes a feeble attempt to launch at the military base in an unknown part of Russia.

It scarcely gets off the launchpad and is followed by a small plume of smoke, before it can be seen dropping out of the sky as shouts can be heard from those watching. Seconds later, the rocket goes out of view as whoever is filming takes cover and a huge explosion can be heard. The shaky camera returns to a massive plume of smoke.

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The leaked footage will be of some embarrassment to Vladimir Putin who as grown the Russian defence budget has grown by 33 per cent to £54billion over the past year. It comes not long after shocking footage emerged of failed another rocket launch which killed six Russian ballistic missile technicians.

This entry was posted on April 22, 2015 at 10:13 PM and is filed under Russian missiles. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: Russian Engineering