S300 fail

[seruriermarshal]

Burnt S-300 launcher at Ashuluk firing range, Asktrakhan region of Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOqRHbfX5o

 

[Rickshaw]

Oops!

 

[Sferrin]

Here are a couple others (probably everybody's seen them but may as well add them):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s77cqabHsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r_4cQ1dca0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LQqm8c2mg

Now here's an interesting one, albeit Patriot. At 0:48 there's an apparent failure and the system appears to automatically launch a second one immediately. I say it appears automatic because the second also fails whereupon a 3rd missile is launched but from a different launcher. I wonder if the system is smart enough to consider, "maybe that other launcher has issues".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtaUXXD6uc

 

[Graham1973]

Looks like the ignition timer failed.....

 

[Sferrin]

Looks like the ignition timer failed.....

Interesting that that motor is pulsing so powerfully there for a bit that it's shaking the camera.

 

[Sherman Tank]

That was what happened with every Estes rocket I ever built.

 

[RP1]

Interesting that that motor is pulsing so powerfully there for a bit that it's shaking the camera.

I *suspect* it's messing with the moving parts of the optics, rather than the whole camera. Still, it's terribly sporting!

 

[DrRansom]

The story I read was that Russians use old S-300 rounds for testing, when you use a cold launch system with that, you get spectacular results. Or, quality control is just bad.

Here's a question, why did one of the three fails cause an explosion?

 

[RP1]

Here's a question, why did one of the three fails cause an explosion?

This has had me confused; we see one missile just drop onto the launcher and do nothing, another have some sort of breakup and deflagration of the propellant, and another that sounds *a bit* like an explosion, but leaves no burning chunks of missile. My interpretation of the latter is that actually the missile motor fired, just *very* late.