MGM-140A ATACMS Block I

Original model with 165 km range, inertial navigation and 950 M74 anti-personnel and anti-materiel (APAM) grenades.

    • MeshPotato@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I suspect the failure rate goes up. Have you seen the video of the Russian AA missile pretending to be a boomerang 🪃 and flying back to its launch point?

      That’s what can happen with old rockets.

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Yes, I’ve seen (that?) such a video. Rockets and missiles have a lot of mechanical and electronical parts that can refuse to work properly when overaged or stored under bad conditions, besides fancy things happening to the explosives.