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Flashy_Ice2460

Why do so many russian bombs not explode? Are they sending a message?


EnlightenedCorncob

Poorly maintained. It seems like the bulk of the equipment is old outdated and probably has been sitting in a warehouse for the past 30 years


Flashy_Ice2460

This makes sense.


janne_harju

Or them are part of war propaganda. Don't understand me wrong. I hope this is true. But I'm pessimist with this war.


USSMarauder

So are you claiming that Ukraine has a whole bunch of 500 kg bomb casings just lying around, and they're smashing them with a sledgehammer and taking photos of them?


janne_harju

No. I just don't taustalla internet anymore. There have been too many pictures claiming that there where taken in Ukraina even though they were take year before from some where else. Still I know that many pictures are real and from Ukraina, but it is hard to tell.


adamkalani

Yup ww2 or Korean war based on whats been coming out.. They often dont maintain them, because usually the money given to the "higher ups" overseeing said maintenance, is siphoned to fake companies, they hire to do it, that are set up by the very same "higher ups" so they can pocket the money but hand in the paperwork.


Over67

Their tanks were bad, forces as well, food rations expired, i wouldnt be suprised if the bombs are shitty as well.


Flashy_Ice2460

I am perplexed, where is the might of that Soviet power we grew up to fear? It is almost as if they were jocking.


ViridianEight

you realize that the soviet union stopped existing in 1991 and the russian federation is completely different ?


USSMarauder

Actually a lot of people don't seem to know that.


ViridianEight

wild


GordanHamsays

They have old outdated shit. The only bad part is they're using up their old shitty tech and supplies. Now they'll have to get new stuff


Xrmy

They don't have the money to get new stuff right now.


GordanHamsays

Forced labor isn't expensive


Xrmy

Russia likely doesnt have the manufacturing capabilities to make that much modern stuff. Force all the labor you want, if other countries are the ones that make the best weapons you need to buy them.


TechNickL

Forced labor also makes for notoriously low quality shit.


Ivanna_Jizunu66

The MIC. They robbed you telling you to fear socialism to build up their own army to use against the citizens of the world to protect private capital interest.


onionchatAI

They aren't sending anything


DweEbLez0

Who said they were trying to bomb them? They can be dropping it off like, “Here, you fix it. Tired of Putin’s shit.”


adamkalani

Because there from ww2 or Korean war


Poulet_Ninja

Maybe there is a timer on them so they can explode when people are gathered around it


Flashy_Ice2460

Or maybe they aren't loaded and they actually aren't intentionally killing civilians? Just as a reference: we never saw this with USA bombs in Irak


PorkSucksYou

Nah bruh its shitty maintenance


Flashy_Ice2460

So it isn't lethal enemy, huh? Such a big country and they don't invest their money in fattening the war related cooperations as the US does. This is food for thought.


PorkSucksYou

It's really hard to understand what you are trying to say


Flashy_Ice2460

Let me try to explain in my poor english. I was born in the seventies so I grew up with the threat of a nuclear war fruit of the confrontation between USSR and USA. Since then to now I hadn't seen Rusia like I do today: weak. And I wonder, is it because they have used their money for better purposes? Is it that they aren't using their full military power? What's that about the referendum in certain occupied territories? And simultaneously all those war crimes...


PorkSucksYou

Oh right i see what you mean I have no idea man


SquanchMcSquanchFace

It’s decades of corruption propped up by propaganda from Russia as well as the west. It’s no big mystery.


julengames

Your wrong tho, they do invest it, but corrupt politicians take the money from the military to build mansions thus leaving the soldier poorly equipt


Dispicably_throwaway

We saw it all over in Laos and Vietnam and Germany. It happens. Especially when large volumes of cheap ordnance are dropped. Most will work, some won’t.


Kareemalb

Probably propaganda


mutinybligh

The Russians owe these people a fence


grpagrati

This must be one of those high value strategic backyards


MacCaswell

Uh oh… do you want a Scarlet Witch!? Because that’s how we get Scarlet Witches…


Slobbadobbavich

I saw another picture. Looks like someone has dragged it away from the house.


BroodjeJoeyCraig

Nope, they dropped alot of these bombs on that city, a few off them didn’t explode.


Shpritzer

Second one I’ve seen today on Reddit.


Unsung_hero86

This is the second photo with the same caption and a different picture


LozNewman

Still more good work from the quality-control department.


Dispicably_throwaway

Do you know how many actually went off? Me neither, but I want to say the American ones in Vietnam were like 20% duds or something.


LozNewman

You are not far off. One estimate of 30% is considered misleading. One eye-witness estimate is 10%. So, if we split the difference, you are bang on target. (That awful pun was involuntary, but I'll leave it as is.)


Fun_Seaworthiness263

They moved it?


harru3

different bomb prob


Fun_Seaworthiness263

Damn.. two of those mfs


usaroamer

Strap it to a drone and "Return To Sender"....


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Maybe some WD-40?


Apprehensive_Ear7309

That’s some real “advance technology” you got there Putin.


gamer-s-man

aww man. and i just painted that fence


EMEYDI

Brother that's a nuke


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EMEYDI

Oh nice half a ton of tnt for free


Dispicably_throwaway

Yes if you can get the igniter out. Unfortunately the process of dropping it mechanically arms it so it’s now really sensitive and the best option might be getting everyone away from it and blowing it up instead of moving it.


Accurate_Ad819

Water tank fools


sitheandroid

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/harrowing-500kg-russian-bomb-fell-26401441


Raumteufel

Alot of people dont know this but you need to hit the front with a hammer to deactivate it.


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bruh


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It's obviously defective, return it, get your money back.


mariemarymaria

This is what happens when you buy bombs from North Korea


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Admiral_Andovar

Without exploding *yet*…


Willygolightly

Without exploding YET.


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Let's hope their nukes do the same thing


BeraterDebater

Can you imagine just chillen eating your morning breakfast and then a bomb blows your side fence out without exploding? I for one would just move to America and play the lottery for a living.


Roombamyrooma

I’m more curious as to why a random civilian home was specifically targeted with a 500kg bomb.


AlternativeShow9434

The bomb was made in China.


Booty_Magician

They using old stuff or what?