Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv

Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by ncmncm on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:45AM (#33150637)

Curious about what was where it actually hit. Seems pretty clear Samsung was not the target. Electrical substation "across the street" would be a probable target, but was missed.

I.e., did it hit a plausibly intended target, or miss?

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by Max-Ganz-II on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:18AM (#33150998)

I've blogged, here, with my photos (as photos are now being published);

https://www.amazonredshiftresearchproject.org/slblog/2022-10...

To my eye, the missile struck the roof of the low building next to the Samsung tower. The buildings there, as far as I know from looking at them, are light commerical - restaurants, shops, etc.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by Suzuran on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:21AM (#33151019)

All of Ukraine is the intended target.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by tomatotomato37 on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:44AM (#33151317)

It's most certainly a miss. People have this weird perception due to all the modern propoganda with the tomahawk missile and such that military equipment is now 100% accurate and reliable. In reality these are still physical objects that are subject to mechanical failure/enemy action/entropy/whatever and the average failure rate is still such that you have to send a volley of 3 or 4 guided missiles downrange to absolutely guarantee a kill.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:05AM (#33151565)

> this weird perception due to all the modern propoganda with the tomahawk missile and such that military equipment is now 100% accurate and reliable

The accuracy of Russian munitions has been demonstrably lower than NATO standard [1]. They’re also running low on good munitions, leading e.g. to land strikes by surface-to-air S-300s [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/britain-says-russia-has...

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by dragontamer on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:20AM (#33152503)

These attacks in Ukraine _were_ the good Russian missiles.

They're from a precious small stockpile of Russian precision weapons. And they wasted it on civilian targets.

S300 cannot strike Kyiv, not from where the the frontline has moved.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by dekhn on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:18AM (#33151725)

There was a whole article in the NY Times explaining how this is true for the Russians, but not the HIMARS being used by Ukraine.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by jddil on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:18AM (#33151733)

Miss? Russia is indiscriminately firing missiles into dense civilian areas for maximum terror.

They did not miss.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by ncmncm on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:43PM (#33154293)

There are always more specific targets in an area that cause more trouble destroyed than others. Blowing up a playground when nobody is there has to be counted as a miss when an electrical substation is nearby.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by rasz on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:15AM (#33152420)

officially they didnt miss anything

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-defence-ministr...

>Russian defence ministry said in its daily briefing:

>"The goal of the strike has been achieved. All designated targets were hit,"

ergo this childrens playground was the intended target https://mobile.twitter.com/ArmanSoldin/status/15793548449511... https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1579357969577545729

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