Sineva
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I dont think its a missile,my bet is that it was a shkval/hoot supercavitator rocket powered torpedo that malfunctioned and ended up launching itself out of the water.One of the things that points to this is the huge amount of gas the thing is emitting and the fact that gas is even coming from the nose of the object which is consistent with a shkval/hoot,in addition it does not appear to be fully stable in flight as the body is slowly rotating along its length.Had a quick inquiry about the old video of the underwater launched missile. That missile did fail right, or am I looking at it the wrong way?
Heres a video of an actual ss-n-16 launch,the differences are pretty obvious.
Heres what a cruise missile launch from a buoyant capsule ejected from a torpedo tube actually looks like [1:10]Never seen an underwater missile launch like that before.