https://t.me/belnarrepublic/14753
Toropets. Tver region - hit at unit 11777, GRAU arsenal.
https://t.me/operativnoZSU/157750
NASA FIRMS
I didn’t know Russia could look that beautiful! 😍🤣
FIRMS is going even more nuts than your image. Is there even a base left?
And it keeps getting worse. Basically the whole base plus some forests and residential areas seem to be burning.
I think these are satellite measurements that accumulate over 24 hours though, so not sure if the image reflects the current situation well.
Link to the NASA map btw if anybody wants to check it out
The Kremlin is pleased to report that their enormous ammunition depot and barracks have quickly and efficiently intercepted the enemy attack drone in a coordinated tactical strike.
Beautiful pictures, in every regard. When that cloud cover started moving up and away… 🤩
Is there a shockwave porn on Lemmy yet?
Woah
I literally out loud did a slow “whooooaaaaa”
Yeah, an audible Jesus at that first video. The other sites in the distance just make it all the more…
Closest thing I’ve seen to a nuclear detonation, holy shit. What type of munitions? Mortar rounds?
The 107th GRAU arsenal was often used to store various munitions, including 122-mm rockets for the Grad MLRS and 82-mm mortar shells - OSINT researcher Tatarigami.
Its difficult for me to even get a grasp of scale. I really have no actual concept for what I’m looking at, above some kind of minimum threshold for what must be several buildings at least.
For real, we’re sure this isn’t a fuckin nuke?
Most definitely not a nuclear bomb.
All large explosions cause a mushroom cloud, not just nukes
I did know that, i was more surprised by the brightness
you would have known by now. it doesnt need to be nuclear to be really fucking big
There are many videos online of ammo caches going off that look like a nuke. Not a huge number but it’s a thing
@whostosay @Bosht yeah. We are sure ffs.
Indeed, there may have been a tactical nuke stored among other armaments. I hope people there have Geiger counters.
Just do a quick search for “mushroom cloud”, and you’ll find that all this combined is nowhere near what a nuke would look like.
The mushroom cloud formed from a small nuke like little boy (small by modern standards) reaches up to about 8 km. that’s close to cruising altitude for an airliner. The reason the cloud from a nuke “mushrooms” in a different way than conventional munitions is that the intense heat is causing enough hot air to rise to form a literal cloud when it reaches high enough that the humidity condenses. This can even cause radiative rain shortly after the bomb has gone off.
The fireball of Little Boy is estimated to have been almost 400 m in diameter with a surface temperature approximately equal to that of the sun, and every building within about 1.6 km was instantly completely destroyed.
It is difficult to comprehend just how much more powerful even a small “tactical” nuke is than any conventional weapon. There’s a reason soldiers that were shown blast tests of them during the Cold War have told stories of breaking down crying at the sight, because they just couldn’t fathom what they were seeing.
There was no nuke blowing up here.
I was talking about the tactical nuke that might have been stored there. By the way, the locals in Toropets said that the explosion would be much bigger if another storage facility was hit. Perhaps they were talking about some deep storage with a nuke that remained intact. And this is probably the reason why the Ruscists now strictly forbid any publication of the aftermath.
The explosion of the nuke in the storage is very different from the explosion of the intentionally exploded armed nuke. It may not even explode at all, but only spread radioactive material.
But in this case, the radioactivity level did not increase, so evidently no nuke was hit.
Tankies in shambles
Shambies in tankles
Holy shit! Was this caused by drone strikes? I can’t imagine how Russia could have this much ammunition located within range of this kind of strike, let alone how enough munitions got through the air defences to set all this off, or how the fire prevention measures are bad enough that this could be the result of a fire spreading from just a few hits.
“It provides reliable and safe storage, protects against air and missile strikes and even against the damaging effects of a nuclear explosion,” this is how Deputy Defense Minister Bulgakov, who is now arrested for corruption, spoke in 2018 about the missile arsenal under construction in Toropets, which was attacked tonight.
" If we store the current arsenals with what they used to be - storage in open areas and in wooden storage facilities - and today in concrete (storages), the difference will be approximately this: either wear a bulletproof vest that protects against bullets and shrapnel, or wear one without one," the Deputy Minister of Defense said at the time. Bulgakov added that the arsenal meets “the highest world standards.”
What time of day did this occur?
~4:00 local
Dang so that daylight was from the explosion?
Yes, and there are also videos of continuing, frequent secondary explosions when there’s daylight.
So, the explosions lasted a few hours, minimum.
What part of the smoke is ruzzia? You gotta excuse me, I’ve never been to an exploding 🤯 country like that.
Do people in the area close to it have to worry about stray bullets flying out?
Probably not, but definitely rockets and missiles.
Bullets don’t have much energy unless the explosion is contained/directed inside a barrel. Here is a firefighting demonstration on how to deal with burning ammo. The tl;dw is: just make sure you are wearing the facemask and other insulated clothing so you don’t catch one in the eye, but they are otherwise harmless.
Also, as Wileshire mentioned: larger things like rockets and missiles can be dangerous still as the rocket motor can ignite, and send the whole thing at high speed to nearby areas.
