1/ A catastrophic explosion at a Russian arsenal may have taken place while an ammunition train was being loaded or unloaded. Images from the depot show ammunition stacked in the open, while its bunkers seem to have been poorly protected. bsky.app/profile/spec... - ThreadSky

chriso-wiki.bsky.social • 1 day ago

1/ A catastrophic explosion at a Russian arsenal may have taken place while an ammunition train was being loaded or unloaded. Images from the depot show ammunition stacked in the open, while its bunkers seem to have been poorly protected.
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lnfsfrklyc2e

Reposted from 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦

💥/1. Just now, Russian ammunition depot, 65km from Moscow was targeted, secondary detonations are ongoing!

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msoto.bsky.social•1 day ago

The interesting question, of course: accident or sabotage!

konstantinoska.bsky.social•1 day ago

The same question was asked by some other guys

sciencevinman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Burn baby burn!

davehaterofracism.bsky.social•1 day ago

double win , destroy the ammunition AND the train

Russian rail system is creaking the more trains destroyed the better

southpatt.bsky.social•1 day ago

great thread - thanks !

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

2/ Triangulation of videos showing the initial explosion suggests that it took place at the very centre of the arsenal near Kirzhach (coordinates 56.101466125876044, 38.74729263195981), where satellite images show a rail loading/unloading facility.

jacasey73.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I imagine that lot cost a few dollars

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

3/ New satellite images released today show that the most heavily impacted area of the arsenal is centred on the rail loading/unloading facility, which may support the hypothesis of an accident with an ammunition train.
https://bsky.app/profile/mtanderson.bsky.social/post/3lnladdj3p22r

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

4/ The depot is believed to have stored a wide variety of ammunition, including solid-fuel anti-aircraft and ballistic missiles, multiple-launch rockets, and shells of various kinds. It reportedly stored ordnance that was transferred from Belarus.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

5/ The 51st GRAU arsenal not only stores ammunition but handles its assembly (for instance, installing warheads on anti-tank missiles), repairs it, and disposes of it if it is defective.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

6/ The arsenal occupies an area of 502 hectares (3.5 square km), with an 8.4 km perimeter. Within it are 14.2 km of railways and 15.3 km of roads, with a capacity of 4,286 rail cars of ammunition – 64 tons each, or more than 264,000 tons at maximum.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•1 day ago

7/ In 2009, after a deadly ammunition explosion in Ulyanovsk, journalists were invited to tour the 51st GRAU depot to inspect it. Retired colonel Viktor Litovkin wrote in the 'Nezavisimaya Gazeta' that he was not impressed with conditions there:

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