{"id":57357,"date":"2020-01-28T19:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=57357"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:18:13","slug":"video-of-russian-rocket-viral-as-failed-launch-test-of-pakistans-ghaznavi-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-russian-rocket-viral-as-failed-launch-test-of-pakistans-ghaznavi-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Russian rocket viral as failed launch test of Pakistan’s Ghaznavi missile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of India’s 71st Republic Day celebrations, several social media users posted a video of a failed missile launch claiming it is from Pakistan. On January 25, Twitter-user @arpispeaks posted the viral video with Hindi text that said, “P<\/em><\/span>akistan’s Ghaznavi missile test failed for the 13th time. A missile which is supposed to travel 300 km, crashed after 36 km, burning like a paper.[Translated from \u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u0917\u091c\u0928\u0935\u0940 \u092e\u093f\u0938\u093e\u0907\u0932 \u0915\u093e 13\u0935\u093e\u0902 \u091f\u0947\u0938\u094d\u091f \u091c\u094b \u092b\u0947\u0932 \u0939\u094b \u0917\u092f\u093e\u0964 300Km \u0924\u0915 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0947\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0940 \u092e\u093f\u0938\u093e\u0907\u0932 36Km \u092a\u0930 \u0917\u093f\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u0917\u091c \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u091c\u0932 \u0915\u0930 \u0916\u0924\u094d\u092e \u0939\u0941\u0908\u0964]”<\/em>
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\n300Km \u0924\u0915 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0947\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0940 \u092e\u093f\u0938\u093e\u0907\u0932 36Km \u092a\u0930 \u0917\u093f\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u0917\u091c \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u091c\u0932 \u0915\u0930 \u0916\u0924\u094d\u092e \u0939\u0941\u0908\u0964
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\u2014 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3Arpita Jana (@arpispeaks) January 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similarly, several people on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>\u00a0have shared the viral video with the claim that this missile launch is from Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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Video is from Russia<\/h2>\n

Alt News did a keyword search on YouTube and found that the viral video was uploaded<\/a> by Martin Vit in 2014. According to the title of the video, a ‘Proton M’ rocket exploded on July 2, 2013.<\/p>\n

Alt News performed another keyword search on Google and found that the rocket was launched by Proton M, an expendable Russian heavy-lift launch vehicle. Several media outlets reported about the crash including Euro News<\/a><\/em> and Space.com<\/a><\/em>. According to Space.com, <\/em>the rocket crashed 17-seconds into the flight on July 1, 2013, due to emergency shutdown of the booster’s engines. A YouTube video uploaded by Euro News on <\/em>July 2, 2013 reported that the rocket was unmanned.<\/p>\n