https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-boomerang-missile-video-explained-by-air-defense-expert
Russian ‘Boomerang’ Missile Video Explained By Air Defense Expert
A veteran air defense operator has some ideas as to what could have led to this spectacular mishap in Ukraine.
BY HOWARD ALTMAN, THOMAS NEWDICK
JUN 24, 2022 6:03 PM
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To try and get a better understanding of what might have happened in this alleged Russian missile mishap, we turned to David Shank, who served as commandant of the U.S. Army’s Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before retiring as a Colonel.
"It looks like one of two things to me," Shank told The War Zone Friday afternoon. "It's possibly just a simple, bad round. Some type of misfire where the round is launched, and then it just malfunctions.
"We've seen this happen," he said. "It happens with American systems. It's not often. It's not pretty. It's very rare, but it does happen. I have personally seen it take place with Stinger missiles on two or three occasions in my career where the missile would launch and then it wouldn't have a boost and it would just fall on the ground. And I've also seen it with a larger-type interceptor when firing over bodies of water, where the interceptor would launch and then go straight into the water."
There is another possibility, said Shank, who agrees it was a Russian system shown in the videos.
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