Analysis | Russian Missile Command: The game where 60 percent of your missiles don’t work

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“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%,” Phil Stewart reported for the wire service. “Two of them said it reached as high as 60%.” The errors included everything from failures at launch to failures to detonate.I am not a military expert, but I feel confident saying this: 60 percent is a lot.

But let’s demonstrate this another way. If you are of a certain age, you might remember a game called. It was a very 1980s/Cold War video game involving nuclear missiles raining down on a city with your task being to fire countermeasure missiles in hopes that you could detonate the incoming nukes before they hit the ground.missile command. Choose to use Russian missiles to defend your city and you’re going to get an error rate of something around 60 percent.

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