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The wreckage of an ATACMS MGM-140A missile in Berdiansk (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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MGM-140A ATACMS Block I

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As an environmentalist, I’m so relieved they are not simply going to waste.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

FrugalJerk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they use also look - smell - taste like for food after its best before date has passed?

[–] MeshPotato 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MeshPotato 3 points 11 months ago

Yup. One issue from long storage is that the fuel in solid fuel rockets can start to separate. Ryan McBeth did an explanation on a possible cause on that AA missile failure.

As you mentioned, some explosives also become unpredictable. The Takata airbags sending shrapnel into drivers faces comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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.