Russian Orthodox Church leaders blessing a rocket called Satan.

[Swede]

I don't think you'll ever see a bigger weirdness:
Russian Orthodox Church☦️ leaders blessing a rocket called Satan.

Link to tweet

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[pwb]

1. Is that because russian shit only works half the time?

On a good day.

[SoonerPride]

2. On brand

TBH

[Trailrider1951]

3. Proof positive that religion can make you do illogical things

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

[Celerity]

14. no, as the rocket isn't called 'Satan' in Russia, it is the RS-28 Sarmat, named after the Sarmatians

Satan (Satan II in this case) is the Nato codename


https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16689476

[Srkdqltr]

4. Thank goodness thos "blessing" will do nothing.

[xocetaceans]

5. Are they going to consult Armaments 2:9-21? Absurd. n/t

[sarisataka]

6. To be fair,

Last edited Fri May 13, 2022, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

It is NATO than refers to the missile as SS-18, code named 'Satan'

EDIT > see next post. The missile pictured is the newer RS-28, called Satan II by many western sources

The Russians call it the R-36M2 or 'Voevoda' (ruler? warlord?)

Still to bless an ICBM is rather baffling. Are they praying to God that it delivers its megatons to kill a million or so people?

[Celerity]

10. RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат), named after the Sarmatians

https://tass.com/defense/992360

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. In his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia’s Defense Ministry had launched an active phase jointly with enterprises of the rocket and space industry to test a new missile system with the Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The RS-28 Sarmat is the Russian promising silo-based missile complex with the heavy liquid-propellant ICBM capable of carrying nuclear charges. Russia has been developing the Sarmat since the 2000s to replace the R-36M2 Voyevoda ICBM operational in the country’s Strategic Missile Force since 1988.

The missile complex was named after the nomadic Sarmatian tribes who lived in the 6th-4th centuries BC on the territory of present-day Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Project’s history

The state contract for the Sarmat R&D work was concluded on July 21, 2011. On the day of the 54th anniversary of the Strategic Missile Force on December 17, 2013, Strategic Missile Force Commander Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev officially announced for the first time about the system’s creation.

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[sarisataka]

12. I should have noticed this is the Satan II

The nose cone of the older missile is quite different.

[sop]

7. It was either bless Satan, or take a suspicious fall out of the church's onion dome.

[Cheezoholic]

8. At least they're not Catholic /sarc warning

They'd be riding it

(No offense but if you can't make a little fun of your religion you're a slave to it )

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Could it be...

[Mme. Defarge]

11. Now

isn’t that special.

[malaise]

13. I remember Busco's rockets with bible verses in Iraq

That is all