🧵A loading facility preparing KH-101 air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) along with an unknown number of KH-101 missiles were destroyed in the strike of the 20th March 2025 on Engels-2 airfield, imagery from Maxar suggests. 1/5 - ThreadSky

tochnyi.info • 33 days ago

🧵A loading facility preparing KH-101 air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) along with an unknown number of KH-101 missiles were destroyed in the strike of the 20th March 2025 on Engels-2 airfield, imagery from Maxar suggests.

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tochnyi.info•33 days ago

The transport containers seen either side of the building in image #1 below appear to be GK-120 containers for the KH-101 ALCM, prior to loading.

These have been recorded before: during a visit by Sergei Shoigu to Russian aerospace company MKB Raduga in January 2024.

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tochnyi.info•33 days ago

GIS software measures these containers to be around 7.5m in length. With the GK-120 container being 7.45m in length and the KH-101 being the most common ALCM deployed at Engels, we conclude these are likely containers for KH-101 ALCMs and all were destroyed in the strike.

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tochnyi.info•33 days ago

The cylindrical building in which the GK-120s are being loaded in the image below is a likely ACLM facility used for setting fuses, adding warheads and other preparatory work on the ALCMs prior to their loading onto strategic bombers.

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tochnyi.info•33 days ago

The geo-located footage from D. mojavensis suggests both secondary detonations and damage to open-air-stored ammunition, with this later clearly visible in the Maxar satellite imagery.

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tochnyi.info•33 days ago

Please visit https://tochnyi.info/posts for further analysis. Credit to @edrotning.tochnyi.info and Brian for the BDA, @hartreefock.bsky.social and @jonathan.tochnyi.info for the research and @clockworkchris.bsky.social for the graphics.

tochnyi.info•33 days ago

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tadaskaucikas.bsky.social•32 days ago

Protected angars was converted into unprotected lower than the sea level craterangars😎Slava Ukraini!

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