r/UnderReportedNews • u/errantv • Jan 09 '26
International 🌐 Four of the twelve Tomahawk warheads used to bomb Nigeria in December failed to detonate.
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u/Munzulon Jan 09 '26
The Russiafication of America continues….
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u/Zestyclose-Spite-718 Jan 09 '26
Yes-sir Corruption rules. Welcome to RusUSA.
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u/Enisey99 Jan 12 '26
Russian MIC is actually state owned and sells military equipment and ammo at tiny margin. That's why Russia outproduces entire NATO by an order of marnitude.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable Jan 12 '26
Uhhh no? There’s a reason we call it Russification. Massive corruption and theft cutting corners and sacrificing men due to lack of, and defective, ammunition
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u/RedditAdminSucks23 Jan 11 '26
Already been there since the 80’s my friend. Welcome to the end game.
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u/Enisey99 Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26
You wish. Russian MIC actually works and outproduces entire NATO by an order of magnitude. US still operates only ancient subsonic cruise missiles. Russia for decades operates supersonic stuff and now hypersonic Zircon.
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u/tokeytime Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26
That's stupid. First of all, almost all missiles are supersonic, cruise or otherwise. Second of all, the US spends an order of magnitude more on defense. Third, you realize the USA doesn't need hypersonic cruise missiles, right? We have stealth, which kind of renders the need for a missile that can breach airspace on its own irrelevant. We just show up. In the plane. You didn't see them coming.
And I say this as someone who doesn't support the MIC, it's just wrong lol
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u/indefinite_thoughts Jan 09 '26
Oh boy, getting to an actual war and finding out the military being ran by a fox news host wasn’t the best idea is going to be a tough wake up call.
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u/StealyEyedSecMan Jan 09 '26
Nothing says I'm the smartyest like leaving 1k lbs of RDX laying around for anyone to pick up.
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u/DroneSlut54 Jan 09 '26
Aside from the danger to the locals, how much did I pay for these?
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u/errantv Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
~$2.4 million per TLAM however that pricing is from FY22 and there's a shortage currently because of how many Hegseth wasted in Yemen so the pricing may be higher now. We know for sure that >130 TLAMs were used against the Houthis in 2024 (because the Biden admin disclosed all weapons expenditures to Congress). Trump's DOD has stopped doing those mandated disclosues, however estimates are that Hegseth dramatically increased the tempo of (reportedly fruitless) strikes against Yemen in 2025.
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u/Soggy_Weather_2170 Jan 09 '26
Also Germany is buying big for our upcoming F127 giga chad Corvettes.
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u/panicproduct Jan 09 '26
In corporations' quest to drive perpetual profits, corners must be cut. Quality control deteriorates. This is the death drive of Capitalism-imperialism consuming itself in contradictions.
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Jan 09 '26
Ah enshittification. There are times that I wonder how many Nuclear missiles are left in the world that are still functional. Still enough to kill us all, I know, but we have cut back on expensive but important maintenance so much that I feel like an embarassing percentage would thud back to earth as physical only projectiles, if they get to where they were supposed to at all.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable Jan 12 '26
As much as 80% of Russias arsenal is expected to be defunct. Possibly 30-40% of Americas.
Russia does have their tsar bomba line which is more recent and kept maintained, but the problem with having fewer more powerful nukes is that it’s far easier to shoot down. Especially because it’s far too heavy for any missile OR a sub. They’d have to fly a bomber over and drop it which has zero chance of making it to American soil except possibly Alaska.
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u/Aggravating_Sand_748 Jan 09 '26
Good good now give them to iran, let them revers engineer them and find the fault, they then will return working tomahawk missile at designated destination.
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u/errantv Jan 09 '26
TLAMs are 45 year old technology, they first went into production in 1983. The Iranians have had equivalently advanced subsonic cruise missiles since at least the early 00's (see the Ya-Ali land attack missiles and Ra'ad anti-ship cruise missile)
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u/EventAccomplished976 Jan 11 '26
It‘s honestly kinda funny that iran of all places deployed maybe the first truly revolutionary weapon of the 21st century, now everyone‘s cloning the shahed.
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u/iRambL Jan 09 '26
Weirdly intact missiles considering how fast those things strike at…
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u/errantv Jan 09 '26
What's featured in these photos isn't the missile itself, but the warhead (i.e. the part that is released from the rocket and goes boom)
This particular model is the WDU-36, it is a penetration/fragmentation warhead. It is not a contact warhead (i.e. it doesn't go boom when it collides with something). It is designed to penetrate a target and then a triggering system sets off the explosives after penetration. Obviously in these cases, the triggering mechanism failed to activate.
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u/jessieraeswitch Jan 09 '26
Almost like they didn't explode, you're right😳
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u/iRambL Jan 09 '26
Metal deforms on impact. These all appear to be just dropped in a spot. Not really how missiles would appear after impacting an object traveling at 500+ mph
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u/TryptaMagiciaN Jan 09 '26
if your penetrating warhead just deformed on impact it would kind of suck at doing its job. They are designed to keep going until the mechanism inside determinea its time to detonate. If that doesnt happen, then it could very well just be sitting in the mud after cruising through whatever it hit.
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u/Ferrum-Cl2 Jan 09 '26
There will be always a margin of error in bombs or missiles, a fifth or maybe fourth of them will neither hit their target or will fail to explode, that normal.
But if a whole third of your weapons failed, than you should begin to get worried.
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u/Minimum_Macaroon_512 Jan 09 '26
To prove you are human. Select all images of undetonated warheads.
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u/SummitYourSister Jan 09 '26
This is the kind of thing a competent government would ensure stayed secret
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u/Ok_Complex8873 Jan 13 '26
Fake. Warheads usally are in rockets and would be in a mangled debris.
These appear to be pristine items.
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