Exclusive: U.S. assesses up to 60% failure rate for some Russian missiles, officials say

[LetMyPeopleVote]

A Sixty Percent (60%) failure rate is amazing. Russia is not a superpower and lack the technical skill to maintain and use high tech weapons. If Russia maintains its nuclear arsenal with the same competence as Russia maintains its cruise missiles, then we may have less to fear from Putin.

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The United States assesses that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60% for some of the precision-guided missiles it is using to attack Ukraine, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence told Reuters.

The disclosure could help explain why Russia has failed to achieve what most could consider basic objectives since its invasion a month ago, such as neutralizing Ukraine's air force, despite the apparent strength of its military against Ukraine's much smaller armed forces.

The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information, did not provide evidence to support the assessment and did not disclose what precisely was driving high Russian missile failure rates......

Citing U.S. intelligence, three U.S. officials said the United States estimated that Russia's failure rate varied day-to-day, depended on the type of missile being launched, and could sometimes exceed 50%. Two of them said it reached as high as 60%.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The Soviet regimes were corrupt to the core, not sure why it would be shocking that it continued.

to today. Communism or a federation they are just covers for totalitarian and authoritarian systems milking Russia's resources to line the leaderships' pockets.

Putin truly f**ked himself. It wouldn't surprise me if this all fell apart and he ends up losing Crimea as well. Sergei may fall out a window if he gets blamed.

[brewens]

3. Go back to WWII. It's remarkable how leaders totally supposedly at opposite ends of the

political spectrum behaved so similarly.

[brewens]

2. That is probably really good news. It might not be sparing many targets now, but they must

be expending many more than they planned for. That may be getting their inventory way down. They can't just produce more right away by magic. We might even have some key materials needed to make them cut off.

[brer cat]

4. I guess he can't get rich off skimming

and still have a well-performing military. Suck to be Putin.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. Oligarchs gotta garch, baby.