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by PaulHoule 1532 days ago
Most accounts are that those failures are "rare"; the missile is sealed in a canister so it's likely to be a defective missile from the factory, not some mistake on the part of the operators.

It happens enough that there are a handful of videos on Youtube. Similar failures happen with vertically launched missiles from ships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydsm1uzkNu4