your way under-estimating this , NASA fire tracker has the entire site ( which is a very large site) as on fire. look at the clip the blast wave is setting off other munitions that are several seconds away ( speed of sound)
your way under-estimating this , NASA fire tracker has the entire site ( which is a very large site) as on fire. look at the clip the blast wave is setting off other munitions that are several seconds away ( speed of sound)The Beruit explosion was 2.75kt of ammonium nitrate equalling about 1.5kt of TNT.
That blast looked like one storage going off but what it contained is hard to tell besides not being missile propellent. No single storage likely to contain more than a few hundred tons each.
At this point, I'll take the trade-off . . . underpaying for Russian oil and profiting from arming Ukraine.India still out there buying cheap Russian oil and selling artillery ammunition to Europe for Ukraine.
Well you know hugging Zelenskyy is relatively safe if Russia doesn't drop a missle on him; but hugging Putin can lead to odd hospilization or worse tripping and falling out of a window.And you know Putin didn't like Zelenskyy getting his own coveted Modi hug! ha
Do they have any idea what precentage of total ammunition of Russia this represents? I mean is it like 0.0001 or 30%; Certainly more incompetence on Russia's part.Indications are that about 3/4ths of the storages were destroyed. More possibly damaged by fire. The depot is basically a total loss.
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India still out there buying cheap Russian oil and selling artillery ammunition to Europe for Ukraine.
Do they have any idea what precentage of total ammunition of Russia this represents? I mean is it like 0.0001 or 30%; Certainly more incompetence on Russia's part.
Still pretty impressive; esp if it destroyed some missles those are the hardest for Russia to replace.Difficult to asses the impact without knowing what the inventory was exactly. Size wise the place isn't gigantic but it is densely packed (clearly a con lol) and possibly over capacity. Probably over the stated 30k ton capacity. I suppose I would guess high single digits.
Well the thing is that meating grinding 60 and 70 year old is probably a positive for russia - what i mean by that is it frees up state resources for helping retiree and it preserves the 'professional' army (not that i think russia has much of a professional army in the sense of usa). It might be heartless but then again russia is a heartless land.Russia is so desperate for men that they take volunteers in their 60s and even 70s.
Russia’s war dead tops 70,000 as volunteers face 'meat grinder'
More than 70,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine - volunteers now make up the highest number of deaths.www.bbc.com
Nothing raises morale like daily indoctrination meetings to raise morale...This article is rather entertaining:
Revealed: Russia anticipated Kursk incursion months in advance, seized papers show
Exclusive: Documents contain months of warnings about possible Ukrainian advance and also reveal concerns about moralewww.theguardian.com
Some of the papers talk about suicide in the russian army and the requirement they must spend x hours a day watching state media among other things.
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And this paragraph is a real doozer:
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Further instructions on keeping up morale come in an undated, typed document that explains that soldiers should get 5-10 minutes a day as well as an hour once a week of political instruction, “aimed at maintaining and raising the political, moral and psychological condition of the personnel”.