Posted on 05/01/2023 2:49:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The massive explosion and ensuing shock wave seen in video from the Ukrainian city of Pavlograd in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was most likely the result of a giant secondary detonation. What seems to have been hit... was a plant that is used for missile fuel and other highly volatile explosive applications. The facility has been a cause of great concern for locals in the past.
The city is strategically located in an area through which that counteroffensive drive toward Crimea could take place...
But it is also home to the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. That’s where fuel for Ukrainian missiles is produced...
"The plant participates in tests of the rocket firing system with corrected 'Alder-M'...and anti-ship cruise missile Neptune," ... Domestically produced Neptune missiles were used to sink the Russian Navy’s Project 1164 Slava class cruiser Moskva.
The plant is also where old Soviet-era SS24 ICBMs were stored and ultimately supposed to be dismantled as part of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program.
In 2020, the BBC reported on local residents’ concerns about what would happen if the plant were to explode, with some people calling it a “ticking time bomb” where more than 1,800 tons of expired rocket fuel was stored.
The facility is also used to store part of the 55 million stockpiled antipersonnel landmines designated for destruction under the Mine Ban Treaty, according to the International Campaign to Band Land Mines (ICBL).
Obviously any production capability for rocket propellant would be a prime target for Russian forces, but a storage area with large decommissioned rockets could have presented a huge secondary explosive potential that Russia specifically pursued.
As of now, cloud cover has made commercial satellite imagery impossible to obtain, so we can't see exactly what was struck or the extent of the damage
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
Well, there goes the much talked about Ukrainian Spring Offensive..
Video looks like a nuke went off.
There isn’t going to be anything left of that country.
Finally, an article that really does merit a BOOM in the title.
Well, it does looks like the Russians got the railyard too — and the railyard in Kramatorsk but these kind of blasts during war never seem to slow anyone down much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
Re #1,7&8: There is considerable evidence you are correct, Russia destroyed pretty much all the targets they shot for.
This purports to be video of the event from a new angle. The secondary explosion is at the 20 second mark...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv_72llZXIM
“ may have been”? Huh? If they watched The Duran, Mercouris, they would have known that a day ago. The western MSM is corrupt, their “Ukies are winning” is getting annoying…..heck, it took them more than a week that Soledar had fallen.
Don’t buy into the western MSM, senileJoe’s narrative is misleading and often false.
Ukraine 1991-2023
Well, it does looks like the Russians got the railyard too — and the railyard in Kramatorsk
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….and a lot more, the missile attack ( the one the Ukies said they shot down) was the second largest since Vlad started launching them….more than 80 targets across Ukraine were reported hit, ( confirmed by foreign video and ground surveillance evidence )….Vlad’s “imaginary” missiles must be pretty good.
That said, even the Ukies have stated their AD is expended, their Buk’s are gone, S300’s on the last legs.
Looks like it left a mile wide crater.
Looks like it left a mile wide crater.
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The West refuses to give any credence to Vlad’s speeches. He said months ago they have not even put their good stuff into service yet….seems validated.
Vlad took hundreds of thousands traditional old blockbuster 500-3,000 Kg bombs put wings on them and precision guidance on them, their now infamous “ glide bombs”, launched from from their Tupelov’s at high altitude, avoiding the Ukie’s degraded AA systems.
Expect more, he announced a few weeks ago they have a high tech non nuclear weapon from which there is no known protection from. Weapons experts believe it is similar to the small “ultra sonic “ weapons they have used against some of our Embassy personnel. Basically, it generates an ultra high frequency shock wave that scrambles the human brain- way past the 6 gig range, with great intensity.
The few Embassy personnel that it was reportedly used against a few years back are still reported to be disabled. Vlad means what he says, it is about time the West starts to take him for his word.
It doesn’t look as bad as last year’s ammonium blast in Lebanon.
Because the Ukrainians planned to attack Russians with spent rocket fuel?
So looks like Russians are not so much into that small diameter bomb concept.
You can see what the plant did in this video
Do you have any actual evidence of that, or is it just another one of your fantasies?
Do you believe every stupid piece of propaganda that some fool posts?
Do you know anything about the dynamics of shock waves in air?
Apparently not.
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