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India accidentally launch a missile into ****stan...
India accidentally fires missile into ****stan
Apart from the fact that both countries detest each other and have nukes... I think the main thing it highlights of how accidents can happen and things can escalate out of control...
That said, let's not let this drift into another Ukraine thread and luckily no-one got killed in this mistake.
Whatever you do don't google Broken Arrow.
All 32 of them!
I'm kind of intrigued how/why ****stan didn't react. Did they know it was an accident?
I imagine they do communicate when required.
'FAO ****stan: Frd a missle by mistake. Soz.'
martinhutch
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I imagine they do communicate when required.‘FAO ****stan: Frd a missle by mistake. Soz.’
That did give me a chuckle!
In truth though, I would hope they do have a direct line of communication for this sort of stuff. Do/ did the US and Russia used to have similar from memory?
Aw come on, who hasn't had a bad day at work?
Do/ did the US and Russia used to have similar from memory?
There was no direct line between the Whitehouse and the Kremlin until after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
They would always warn each other of missile tests and rocket launches and things though, just in case. Apart from one satellite launch which the Americans forgot to mention and the Soviets nearly launched a retaliatory strike
Did anyone see the news piece about the errant drone that hit Zagreb today? Came from Ukraine or possibly Russia and the thinking is the spelling was off on the destination - J for a Y easily done.
It only takes one of these **** ups to spark a bigger problem.
Not to mention there will be plenty of dodgy regimes that are seeing this whole conflagration as an opportunity to level up…it’s a jungle out there
Britian hasn't done anything like that for 6 years.
Obviously much better maintenance regimes.
https://jalopnik.com/the-british-accidentally-fired-a-ballistic-missile-at-t-1791511108
Sounds very typical of an ‘Indian approach’ to maintenance….
Laughable levels of shortcutting, fraud and misrepresentation….
Steady on. That’s a bit of a sweeping statement. It’s stereotyping, verging on racist.
As above, mistakes happen everywhere and it’s a bit previous to assume this one was a result of fraud or misrep.
There’s a gag I heard the other day where a guy was saying that when he starts a new job he knows that IT Tech Support will be shite if the team is staffed by whites. If it’s run by Indians he knows it will be decent and they’ll fix any problem quickly.
Shit happens, the Danish had their 'Oops Missile' incident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Harpoon_missile_misfire_incident
DO NOT PUSH RED BUTTON ✅
We've all been there
No warhead apparently. But accidentally launched; not launched but accidentally went in the wrong direction. I guess a lot of people have some cool heads on the ****stan side to thank.
martinhutch
Full Member
I imagine they do communicate when required.‘FAO ****stan: Frd a missle by mistake. Soz.’
That did give me a chuckle!
And me! I’d hope that there was just a lot of eye-rolling on the ****stani side of the border, along with a muttered “oh, really?”🤣
Steady on. That’s a bit of a sweeping statement. It’s stereotyping, verging on racist
Fair point.
But I'm Indian born, with family from India and other family who've worked there since '60s.
It's from a place of experience...such as:
My BiL went to take his motorbike test. He rode a bike, with a no helmet stranger riding pillion, examiner had 5 bikes and 10 candidates, examiner double pillioned... They rode a few minutes up the road. Every one had to ride a circle of car park. Everyone passed - yes half the candidates were pillion and didn't get to ride...
Another day - HT of the school was informed the new fuse board for the school was fitted. He was shown a lovely new fuse board neatly fitted. HT was told not to test it, it might just cause an issue. Transpires the issue was the fuse board wasn't wired in - the live incoming feed was just twisted into the various circuits behind the board....
And don't get me started on the fatalist outlook, so things like crazy driving, entering a tiger enclosure at the national park (really), or removing broken safety kit on anything from car to train is ok - because if anyone dies, it was just thier day to die....
Maybe someone in ****stan ordered an Indian takeaway?
My BiL went to take his motorbike test. He rode a bike, with a no helmet stranger riding pillion, examiner had 5 bikes and 10 candidates, examiner double pillioned… They rode a few minutes up the road. Every one had to ride a circle of car park. Everyone passed – yes half the candidates were pillion and didn’t get to ride…
So how come despite having stringent motorbike testing Britain still manages to accidentally fire intercontinental missiles?
"The malfunction was subsequently covered up"
Perhaps a lesson for India to learn? Stop being open and honest and deny it all........"don't what you're talking about - ask the Chinese"
There’s a gag I heard the other day where a guy was saying that when he starts a new job he knows that IT Tech Support will be shite if the team is staffed by whites. If it’s run by Indians he knows it will be decent and they’ll fix any problem quickly
Steady on. That’s a bit of a sweeping statement. It’s stereotyping, verging on racist.
HT of the school was informed the new fuse board for the school was fitted. He was shown a lovely new fuse board neatly fitted. HT was told not to test it, it might just cause an issue. Transpires the issue was the fuse board wasn’t wired in – the live incoming feed was just twisted into the various circuits behind the board….
And yet when Prince Philip suggested that he wasn't impressed with Indian standards of installing fuse boxes he was called a racist. It turns out that he was a bit of an expert on the subject all along.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/11/monarchy.gerardseenan
During a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory, Prince Philip remarked that a fusebox bursting with wires looked "as if it was put in by an Indian".
First thing I thought was they were testing their defences and blamed it on an error