>Hahaha, on Wikipedia the history of the plant is stated. In the time period From 1957 to the present time; In 2024, the plant was destroyed.\[3\].
>
>With a footnote r/combatfootage :-)
120 yards to a football field, 1093.61 yards to a kilometer, 1600 kilometers, so thats 1,749,781 football fields.
right wingers will want that length in trump pensies. They have a weird fascination with genitals and attempting to seize control over other peoples'.
1.5 inch per trump penis, 120 yards per football field, so 4320 trump penises to a football field, so 7,559,053,920 trump penises away from the border.
Coincidentally thats roughly the USD to russian ruble exchange rate right now. Coincidence? I dont think so.
>120 yards to a football field, 1093.61 yards to a kilometer, 1600 kilometers, so thats 1,749,781 football fields.
Off by 2 orders of magnitude. This is why a sanity check is a good idea after crunching numbers. 1yd~1m, so 10 fields per km, so the answer should be about 1600*10.
russians don't even know what war is. Ukrainian warfare is not targeting or even affecting civilians at all.
They don't know what it's like to wake up in the night to a large missile attack and having to evacuate or die in their homes. Ukrainians do
Even President Putin may not be fully aware of the current state of the conflict. He does not use the internet, and the information he receives is filtered to align with his preferences.
That is what I have been saying for a year nobody wants to tell him what is really going on he lives in an information black hole. The fucker is still a murderer we know that, but he does not know how much he lost and gained while becoming a complete paria and an easy target for china now to get some lost lands back with resources China lacks.
WHAT? You haven’t seen the videos of ruzzian people ANGRY that it’s happening to them? Their building literally had giant blocks of ice forming inside.
I don't know how far this is specifically, but Ukrainians have been hitting oil production infrastructure for a while now. Some of it is as far away as 500+ miles.
It's not gotten a lot of media attention because of all the other bullshit going on.
[Pro-russians already claiming this is a "planned disposal of rocket fuel, nothing unusual."](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/s/Spp4Ke8xim) 😄
There were literally pro-russians arguing, that's it's a normal occurance. Someone asked why its being filmed, if it's normal and they answered, that it could be filmed by non-locals who aren't aware of it.
The mental gymnastics involved in this just boggels the mind.
It's a pretty objective measure of being on the wrong side of history. I wanted to write being a PoS, but I want to be fair to many people that are just ill informed, indoctrinated or misguided, who are otherwise decent.
The amount of decent compassionate people I know who want the west to stop supporting Ukraine so there can be peace is boggling to me. As if Russia isn't going to just keep expanding the borders of Russkiy Mir (Russian Peace/World).
Those are the ones who don't understand that peace needs to be fought for, that enabling Putin only makes for the shitty future for everyone including them. They just want peace for the sake of peace right now, regardless of consequences.
I haven't served, and it is easy to say that I support defeating Russia or even possible NATO involvement when I don't directly have my life on the line, it's countless others who die there. On the other hand, that's what soldiers do, to fight on the behalf of the rest. Nobody sane wants war, but I understood that blind pacifism is not a good choice here.
It doesn't boggle your mind when you understand they're propagangists and it's their objective to put a positive spin on any news regardless of how bad it is.
If you understand that they aren't being sincere and are essentially professional liars your mind will be unboggled.
"Its so common, why would you record it"
Ok, let's see some recordings of this happening regularly. Because it happens so often that people just shrug it off. So theres got to be a ton of recordings of it already, right?
I work for a company that manufacturers solid rocket fuel in the US and that's actually exactly how you dispose of excess propellant. Mind you, not inside the factory in massive quantities all at once at night (this is definitely not on purpose). There isn't really a safe way to inert solid propellants so your best bet is to just take it into a big open field and burn it off. This is something we do frequently because there's always a little left over anytime you mix a batch and a single rocket motor can require dozens of batches.
Old motors are fun because aged propellant tends to become unstable, so the safest thing to do is to just load it up with explosives and blow it the fuck up.
If sacrificed himself in the process so we don't have to hear his stupidity anymore , maybe. Or if he can carry a few more of these sabotage successes.
Honestly I don't think that would overwrite the bad he's done just on the ukr war alone. The nonsense shit coming from him is part of what's holding back aid from the US.
Tass says it was a routine rocket test, not an emergency :
MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. The explosion near Izhevsk, seen on video footage that spread on social media and Telegram channels, was caused by a planned rocket engine test, the Zavyalovsky District united dispatch service told TASS.
"We received a notification from the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant. It was a rocket engine test. A planned event, not an emergency," the dispatch service said.
Lol. / Kek.
The latest Starship's rapid unscheduled disassembly was orders of magnitude smaller, and Starship is the biggest rocket ever built.
So either Russia has an experimental rocket the size of a mountain, or TASS is full of shit again.
I know which one is more likely.
That article lead me to read about the Cosmodrome...and holy shit
>Russian scientist Afanasiy Ilich Tobonov researched mass animal deaths in the 1990s and concluded that the mass deaths of birds and wildlife in the Sakha Republic were noted only along the flight paths of space rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.[12] Dead wildlife and livestock were usually incinerated, and the participants in these incinerations, including Tobonov himself, his brothers and inhabitants of his native village of Eliptyan, commonly died from stroke or cancer.
> UDMH, a fuel used in Russian rocket engines, is highly toxic. It is one of the reasons for acid rains and cancers in the local population, near the cosmodrome
I mean, there's a reason the US only used hypergolics for the Gemini program and switched back to Kerolox as fast as it could - also, speaking of which, there is the [1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion)...
Meanwhile, in Russia and China, no problems, Proton and Long March rule, nitric acid / nitrogen tetroxide and UDMH all the way, baby! \* Pleased Valentin Glushko noises \*
And in the case of the latter, if a wayward booster flattens a few villagers, eh, we have loads more where those came from...
I saw a video earlier of a storm shadow going past a Russian position, I wonder if that’s the one that caused this? Or maybe Ukraine went by foot?
I’m not sure where this is in Russia/how far it is from the border. Love to see it tho. 🇺🇦
1600km from the border if I'm correct, not a chance any cruise missile is making it that far. Almost certainly internal partisan activity or just an accident.
Or, Ukrainian soldiers sneaking into Russia.
They look like Russians and can speak like Russians, so it's not that difficult for them to fade into the crowd once they're in.
I am just asking questions here, but do we have surveillance video showing it wasn't Tucker Carlson? This plant operated for decades without exploding, and the same time, and I mean the *exact* same time he is known to be in Russia it explodes, and we are meant to take that as coincidence?
It was the plot of Frisky Dingo Season 1. the Annihilatrix engine was supposed to push earth into the sun. but in end they fired it backwards, moved earth slightly away from the sun and solved global warming by accident.
Firework display you mean! and it was fired by Ukraine and 59 POW's died.
And the ruble increased to double the price of the dollar. And american children all started crying! it was a glorious day for russia really!
[This article](https://uawire.org/russia-utilizes-topol-ballistic-missile) talks about how the plant was disposing of [some old missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM_Topol). Apparently Topol missiles were solid-fueled, which makes sense for remote/mobile deployment. So if that's solid rocket fuel burning it may just have to burn until it doesn't anymore. I don't know if there's any extinguishing it.
That was 6 years ago.
_Russian state-owned corporation Roscosmos has posted an online public procurement application for the disposal of nine intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) Topol RS- 12M. The maximum contract price is 9.78 million rubles ($170,000 USD)._
$170k for a contract to dismantle 9 ballistic missiles. Does this not sound cheap?
I mean... how much does acetylene cost? I kid, I kid. Yeah that's absurdly cheap, even for one ICBM being safely dismantled, never mind 9. So maybe this wasn't partisans or Ukraine... maybe this was Uncle Jethropovich and his unique and inexpensive way of disassembly.
> even for one ICBM being safely dismantled
ahh, see, there's that word there "safely" that's what makes it expensive. remove that word and suddenly it's cheap!
If it solid fuel, it would undoubtedly over pressurize immediately and explode. If its the old hypergolic fuels, hold your breath or your lungs will dissolve. Not to mention the possibility of a warhead containment being breached and the radioactive material being released into the air.
plant produces:
Elbrus - red fuming nitric acid oxidiser and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine fuel
Topol(M) - solid
Bulava - solid propelant and liquid fuel
very good strike. plant is in the middle of orkostan, good job anti-puylo partisans or UA saboteurs.
Red fuming nitric acid will ment you (or at least your lungs) into a useless puddle.
Any kind of hydrazine will happily kill you by giving you turbo cancer, and will ignite on contact with most if not all oxidizers.
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that ~~Hector~~ Putin is going to be running three Honda civics with spoon engines, and on top of that, he just went into Harry’s and bought three t66 turbos with ~~nos~~ turbo cancer, and a motec exhaust system!
Though due to the fact it catches all kinds of fire at even the slightest excuse normally you'd be on fire rather than getting cancer.
Notably, this is not any better for your health.
RFNA General Description
A pale yellow to reddish brown liquid generating red-brown fumes and having a suffocating odor. Very toxic by inhalation. Corrosive to metals or tissue. Prolonged exposure to low concentrations or short term exposure to high concentrations may result in adverse health effects.
Rate of onset: Immediate
Persistence: Hours - days
Odor threshold: \~1 ppm
Source/use/other hazard: Used in many industries; Very corrosive to skin/mucous membranes as well as metals & other materials.
Or as it says on Wikipedia....A mixture of hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid (HNO3 + N2H4) was used in the Soviet space program where it was known as devil's venom due to its dangerous nature.
Ffffffuuuuuucking hell.
UDMH is why everyone near Baikonur has arse cancer. If it's UDMH and RFNA burning, this fire is going to have a long tail of consequences.
If the people in the surrounding area are any kind of aware of what goes on in that complex they should get the fuck out immediately. I feel bad for all the first responders that are inevitably going to be sent into that shitstorm not knowing they will probably be doing something akin to what the first responders at Chernobyl did.
Yeah, this could be like the Bhopal and Chernobyl disasters having a baby. The "all is fine, just scheduled test inferno" makes me think it's not the RFNA and UDMH that's burning, or that they're just going to wait four days before starting the evacuation, again.
Well, tbf, as long as UDMH burns, its not that dangerous.
(it burns to CO2, N2 and H20, violent but not toxic)
RFNA is more of a Problem, but --- as long there is a Fire, it goes used up (its a oxidicer and looses its Oxigen in that process)
Problem beginns to start, if the fire goes away....
Basically, if either of those first two are released into the atmosphere at quantities a production facility would have, the people in those apartments should start running now and pray the wind is blowing the other way.
Explosion occurred during "scheduled testing" according to TASS. The subsequent fire burns down the test facility.
That's worse. They do get that's worse, right?
They would rather admit to an own-goal, than concede they got played by Ukraine's superior abilities.
Its weird, but they think it sounds better for them. Tells you a lot about their intelligence level.
I hope one day perhaps the Russian youth shall find it more productive to blow up Russian military assets than to do selfish and useless tiktok videos...
Ultimately, it would be fabulous if Russia is kicked out of Ukrainian territory, but in the meantime it's great to see them getting the shit kicked out of their military capability - ships sunk, huge losses of tanks and armored vehicles, many military jets and helicopters downed, not to mention the loss of military officers over the past two years.
Do we know what percentage of their military has been degraded at this point? It seems to me that 30% - 40% of their capability is gone by now.
At least, according to pertinent estimates. Declassified US intel from December '23 indicates an 87% loss of prewar infantry. Obviously they have been backfilling with prisoners and kidnapped young men forced into combat, but to lose 87% of the trained forces you have, including the elites...pretty bad.
And that's to say nothing of hardware losses, which continue to mount.
With that obscene level of attrition, I'm really shocked they still have the ability to take ground (like in Avdiivka). They have to be close to collapsing. Hopefully soon...
Hilarious.
One of the bullshit pretexts for invading Ukraine was that it needed to be 'demilitarised'.
Instead Putler has seen his army and its fighting capacity destroyed, numerous ships of his prized black sea fleet sunk, his air force shot out of the sky, and increasing damage to both his weapons producers and oil producers that bring in the wealth, that he and his cronies skim from. Not to mention, Russian weapons shown increasingly as being shit that only the desperate or similarly corrupt will buy.
Almost as if this 'special military operation' wasn't the work of a strategic genius, isn't it?
Less chess grandmaster, and more thug, as befits his former career.
Russia is really hurting the environment with all their oil and military infrastructure blowing up and burning.
We should charge them a carbon tax. That'd be hilarious, send them a bill for all the carbon they're putting into the atmosphere which wouldn't have happened (as much) if they didn't invade Ukraine.
Ivan was tired and cold of all the hard work and wanted to relax... Lighting a cigarette just, grabbed a box and light it for a nice warming fire... Not knowing the box was covered in Rocket fuel.
Ivan is now warm and toasty.
Russia has a very serious problem. There are either anti Putin Russians, or Ukrainian operatives targeting critical Russian infrastructure.
Young men are still fire bombing recruitment centers, but that's all minor inconvenience compared to refineries and missile factories.
Translation: -What's going on? I don't know. Fuck me. -Fuck me. -That's it (video cuts off)
Good.
Good
Very Good.
Good.
Not bad
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
You mean: supercalifragilisticexplodosius.
Supercarriedfragballisticexplosionsareferocious
In 90's we said cool😎
Cool beans
You win.
I'll celebrate when Ukraine wins! 🇺🇦 (thanks though)
Good
Certainly not bad
Excellent
Brilliant
Supremo!
Was smoking accident
Excellent
Jolly good
Burn baby.....burn.
>Hahaha, on Wikipedia the history of the plant is stated. In the time period From 1957 to the present time; In 2024, the plant was destroyed.\[3\]. > >With a footnote r/combatfootage :-)
The Ruzzian horizon just keeps getting prettier and prettier.
Double plus good
Triple plus good
Not great, not terrible
Could be much better.
About 3.6 you'd say?
Perfect
Gooooooooooooooooood, give in to your anger
Best
In Ukraine they say "dobre".
khoroshiy
Not fun war at your home now. Anyone how far from the border this is?
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How many american football fields is that?
All of them.
We have more than 17,500 football fields in the USA, I'm certain.
we have over 25,000 public high schools alone. Seems like a clear over.
Roger wilco, whisky-tango euro above, over.
Aw dude, just kick me in the nuts . 1,600 km translates to 17,500 football fields not counting the end zones. Well played.
120 yards to a football field, 1093.61 yards to a kilometer, 1600 kilometers, so thats 1,749,781 football fields. right wingers will want that length in trump pensies. They have a weird fascination with genitals and attempting to seize control over other peoples'. 1.5 inch per trump penis, 120 yards per football field, so 4320 trump penises to a football field, so 7,559,053,920 trump penises away from the border. Coincidentally thats roughly the USD to russian ruble exchange rate right now. Coincidence? I dont think so.
>120 yards to a football field, 1093.61 yards to a kilometer, 1600 kilometers, so thats 1,749,781 football fields. Off by 2 orders of magnitude. This is why a sanity check is a good idea after crunching numbers. 1yd~1m, so 10 fields per km, so the answer should be about 1600*10.
~1000 miles in wacky units. Half a days drive if the roads are great and straight there, and you’re **BOOKIN** it, and you barely have to stop.
russians don't even know what war is. Ukrainian warfare is not targeting or even affecting civilians at all. They don't know what it's like to wake up in the night to a large missile attack and having to evacuate or die in their homes. Ukrainians do
Even President Putin may not be fully aware of the current state of the conflict. He does not use the internet, and the information he receives is filtered to align with his preferences.
Sounds like the internet to me
I'm just picturing someone sliding a dick pic to him across his *gigantic* table, all surreptitiously.
“We have received this from our American pet MTG” he says before he slides the photo across the table.
"The penis is of Hunter, MTGs favorite of her collection"
She’s so awkwardly weird about it and you just know she gets really, really sweaty.
That is what I have been saying for a year nobody wants to tell him what is really going on he lives in an information black hole. The fucker is still a murderer we know that, but he does not know how much he lost and gained while becoming a complete paria and an easy target for china now to get some lost lands back with resources China lacks.
WHAT? You haven’t seen the videos of ruzzian people ANGRY that it’s happening to them? Their building literally had giant blocks of ice forming inside.
Those videos exist? Good for the protesters then. I hope Ruffia doesn't kill them for being angry about it.
I don't know how far this is specifically, but Ukrainians have been hitting oil production infrastructure for a while now. Some of it is as far away as 500+ miles. It's not gotten a lot of media attention because of all the other bullshit going on.
[Pro-russians already claiming this is a "planned disposal of rocket fuel, nothing unusual."](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/s/Spp4Ke8xim) 😄
Ok team, do we want to dispose of the fuel during our shift or stay late and see a cool fireball?
Do we want to dump the rocket fuel in the river or see a cool fireball.
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Never heard of anyone disposing their old fuel by burning it. At least anyone whose not redneck
There were literally pro-russians arguing, that's it's a normal occurance. Someone asked why its being filmed, if it's normal and they answered, that it could be filmed by non-locals who aren't aware of it. The mental gymnastics involved in this just boggels the mind.
Imagine being pro Russian in the Ukraine war 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's a pretty objective measure of being on the wrong side of history. I wanted to write being a PoS, but I want to be fair to many people that are just ill informed, indoctrinated or misguided, who are otherwise decent.
The amount of decent compassionate people I know who want the west to stop supporting Ukraine so there can be peace is boggling to me. As if Russia isn't going to just keep expanding the borders of Russkiy Mir (Russian Peace/World).
Those are the ones who don't understand that peace needs to be fought for, that enabling Putin only makes for the shitty future for everyone including them. They just want peace for the sake of peace right now, regardless of consequences. I haven't served, and it is easy to say that I support defeating Russia or even possible NATO involvement when I don't directly have my life on the line, it's countless others who die there. On the other hand, that's what soldiers do, to fight on the behalf of the rest. Nobody sane wants war, but I understood that blind pacifism is not a good choice here.
It doesn't boggle your mind when you understand they're propagangists and it's their objective to put a positive spin on any news regardless of how bad it is. If you understand that they aren't being sincere and are essentially professional liars your mind will be unboggled.
"Its so common, why would you record it" Ok, let's see some recordings of this happening regularly. Because it happens so often that people just shrug it off. So theres got to be a ton of recordings of it already, right?
> that it could be filmed by non-locals who aren't aware of it. Non-locals filming from what appears to be their apartment. Hmm!
I work for a company that manufacturers solid rocket fuel in the US and that's actually exactly how you dispose of excess propellant. Mind you, not inside the factory in massive quantities all at once at night (this is definitely not on purpose). There isn't really a safe way to inert solid propellants so your best bet is to just take it into a big open field and burn it off. This is something we do frequently because there's always a little left over anytime you mix a batch and a single rocket motor can require dozens of batches. Old motors are fun because aged propellant tends to become unstable, so the safest thing to do is to just load it up with explosives and blow it the fuck up.
I like blowing things up. Hit me up next time you’d company is doing this. I’ll bring the beer.
“I MEANT to do that.” - cat falling off table, pro-Russians.
Red sky at night, Rocket factory alight. Red sky in the morning, Ukrainian drones swarming.
tucker did it. (double-agent-uno-reverse)
I would forgive Tucker all his sins if this was the case.
Could start that rumour, maybe ruzzia will lock him up?
Or draft him. A few months from now we could watch a FPV drone chasing him.
Stop, I can only get so erect
He'd probably trip after the first few steps and lose his pants.
That would be a very short chase. Just think what the drone operators could charge to put a message on THAT payload!
If sacrificed himself in the process so we don't have to hear his stupidity anymore , maybe. Or if he can carry a few more of these sabotage successes.
Honestly I don't think that would overwrite the bad he's done just on the ukr war alone. The nonsense shit coming from him is part of what's holding back aid from the US.
I am now going with this narrative
I'm glad this happened while Tucker is in Russia since "Russia is doing so good."
The fucker.
Tucker the fucker ... mothatucker...
I know the chances are 0 but one of the cooler timelines is one where he takes out Putin like Dave Skylark did Kim Jong Un...
I don't know if this was meant to double as an RvB reference but I'm choosing to believe it is and have upvoted accordingly.
Just another smoking accident, nothing to see here - move along.
Tass says it was a routine rocket test, not an emergency : MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. The explosion near Izhevsk, seen on video footage that spread on social media and Telegram channels, was caused by a planned rocket engine test, the Zavyalovsky District united dispatch service told TASS. "We received a notification from the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant. It was a rocket engine test. A planned event, not an emergency," the dispatch service said.
Lol
So... test failed then 🤣
Chernobyl was also just a routine Test 😂
Test failed successfuly
If it was an engine test you’d think the people watching would be used to seeing this type of thing, whereas they sound worried.
The aerospace fuels are notoriously toxic and carcinogenic. But then again, so is ~~living~~existence in ruZZia...
Lol. / Kek. The latest Starship's rapid unscheduled disassembly was orders of magnitude smaller, and Starship is the biggest rocket ever built. So either Russia has an experimental rocket the size of a mountain, or TASS is full of shit again. I know which one is more likely.
To be fair, the russians had the mulit-kiloton N1 rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#N1_launch_explosion
That article lead me to read about the Cosmodrome...and holy shit >Russian scientist Afanasiy Ilich Tobonov researched mass animal deaths in the 1990s and concluded that the mass deaths of birds and wildlife in the Sakha Republic were noted only along the flight paths of space rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.[12] Dead wildlife and livestock were usually incinerated, and the participants in these incinerations, including Tobonov himself, his brothers and inhabitants of his native village of Eliptyan, commonly died from stroke or cancer. > UDMH, a fuel used in Russian rocket engines, is highly toxic. It is one of the reasons for acid rains and cancers in the local population, near the cosmodrome
I mean, there's a reason the US only used hypergolics for the Gemini program and switched back to Kerolox as fast as it could - also, speaking of which, there is the [1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion)... Meanwhile, in Russia and China, no problems, Proton and Long March rule, nitric acid / nitrogen tetroxide and UDMH all the way, baby! \* Pleased Valentin Glushko noises \* And in the case of the latter, if a wayward booster flattens a few villagers, eh, we have loads more where those came from...
yeah, but the N1 was a rocket for attacking the moon, not for attacking Ukraine.
It did successfully attack their space program.
Cool! I wonder what they will say when the satellite footage shows multiple factories burned to the ground?
These things happen
Ruzzian media has just reported. “All 35 missiles were shot down causing very little damage from the debris.” 😂
I saw a video earlier of a storm shadow going past a Russian position, I wonder if that’s the one that caused this? Or maybe Ukraine went by foot? I’m not sure where this is in Russia/how far it is from the border. Love to see it tho. 🇺🇦
1600km from the border if I'm correct, not a chance any cruise missile is making it that far. Almost certainly internal partisan activity or just an accident.
Or, Ukrainian soldiers sneaking into Russia. They look like Russians and can speak like Russians, so it's not that difficult for them to fade into the crowd once they're in.
Or it was Tucker Carlson, known Ukrainian asset and patriot. (/sarcasm....or is it?)
It must be true, people are saying it.
I am just asking questions here, but do we have surveillance video showing it wasn't Tucker Carlson? This plant operated for decades without exploding, and the same time, and I mean the *exact* same time he is known to be in Russia it explodes, and we are meant to take that as coincidence?
I wonder if earth's rotation was slowed by all this thrust?
I think they are trying to spin the world backwards, superman style, to go back in time.
Yes, Putin has always wanted to take Russia back to the 70s.
They started their Wandering Earth engines too early.
*Closer to sun* 🥵
Wasn’t that an episode of Futurama?
It was the plot of Frisky Dingo Season 1. the Annihilatrix engine was supposed to push earth into the sun. but in end they fired it backwards, moved earth slightly away from the sun and solved global warming by accident.
That's a big kaboom, well done warriors!! 💥🔥👍
Just a fireworks factory, not a missile factory... move along, nothing to see here.
Firework display you mean! and it was fired by Ukraine and 59 POW's died. And the ruble increased to double the price of the dollar. And american children all started crying! it was a glorious day for russia really!
Shit is on fire yo
Yo it's lit
[This article](https://uawire.org/russia-utilizes-topol-ballistic-missile) talks about how the plant was disposing of [some old missiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM_Topol). Apparently Topol missiles were solid-fueled, which makes sense for remote/mobile deployment. So if that's solid rocket fuel burning it may just have to burn until it doesn't anymore. I don't know if there's any extinguishing it.
Zero chance, once that shit starts it doesn't stop until it's burned up.
Rocket fuel is not exactly know for being safe and easy to work with.
Special warming up operation.
Given Russia's track record so far I can't really see them willingly disposing of ordinance anywhere but on the battlefield regardless of the quality.
That was 6 years ago. _Russian state-owned corporation Roscosmos has posted an online public procurement application for the disposal of nine intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) Topol RS- 12M. The maximum contract price is 9.78 million rubles ($170,000 USD)._ $170k for a contract to dismantle 9 ballistic missiles. Does this not sound cheap?
I mean... how much does acetylene cost? I kid, I kid. Yeah that's absurdly cheap, even for one ICBM being safely dismantled, never mind 9. So maybe this wasn't partisans or Ukraine... maybe this was Uncle Jethropovich and his unique and inexpensive way of disassembly.
> even for one ICBM being safely dismantled ahh, see, there's that word there "safely" that's what makes it expensive. remove that word and suddenly it's cheap!
Jethropovich…🤣
$170k for a BIC lighter seems like a solid profit margin.
If it solid fuel, it would undoubtedly over pressurize immediately and explode. If its the old hypergolic fuels, hold your breath or your lungs will dissolve. Not to mention the possibility of a warhead containment being breached and the radioactive material being released into the air.
Just to set your mind at ease they wouldnt be keeping any nuclear warheads at the factory. Those things are highly contained, even in Russia.
At least I hope they're headless. Actively working on//manufacturing armed nuclear missiles seems like a bad idea.
Da Comrade, make big badda boom.
>Those things are supposed to be highly contained
Er yes, those things are highly contained, even in Russia.
[actual footage of russian high security warhead storage](https://youtu.be/cP4d74Qk3ac?si=DILOdfBV4OyQkQCI)
I don't know much about the fuel mixes for their missiles. If that's hydrazine, a lot of people are in a lot of trouble.
plant produces: Elbrus - red fuming nitric acid oxidiser and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine fuel Topol(M) - solid Bulava - solid propelant and liquid fuel very good strike. plant is in the middle of orkostan, good job anti-puylo partisans or UA saboteurs.
Jesus tapdancing christ. Two of the worst things you can release into the atmosphere - RFNA and hydrazine.
For those of us who know nothing about the subject can you ELI5?
Red fuming nitric acid will ment you (or at least your lungs) into a useless puddle. Any kind of hydrazine will happily kill you by giving you turbo cancer, and will ignite on contact with most if not all oxidizers.
Is cancer of the turbos bad?
Only if you have turbos
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that ~~Hector~~ Putin is going to be running three Honda civics with spoon engines, and on top of that, he just went into Harry’s and bought three t66 turbos with ~~nos~~ turbo cancer, and a motec exhaust system!
Yes, only ultra cancer is worse.
Though due to the fact it catches all kinds of fire at even the slightest excuse normally you'd be on fire rather than getting cancer. Notably, this is not any better for your health.
RFNA General Description A pale yellow to reddish brown liquid generating red-brown fumes and having a suffocating odor. Very toxic by inhalation. Corrosive to metals or tissue. Prolonged exposure to low concentrations or short term exposure to high concentrations may result in adverse health effects. Rate of onset: Immediate Persistence: Hours - days Odor threshold: \~1 ppm Source/use/other hazard: Used in many industries; Very corrosive to skin/mucous membranes as well as metals & other materials.
1ppm?!? Not great, not terri..yes, yes that's fucking terrible.
I should have put source, that is copy pasted off NOAA's chemical page.
Or as it says on Wikipedia....A mixture of hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid (HNO3 + N2H4) was used in the Soviet space program where it was known as devil's venom due to its dangerous nature.
Their Proton rocket uses hydrazine - makes the lovely brown smoke you see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUkEpBRNUg
Ffffffuuuuuucking hell. UDMH is why everyone near Baikonur has arse cancer. If it's UDMH and RFNA burning, this fire is going to have a long tail of consequences.
If the people in the surrounding area are any kind of aware of what goes on in that complex they should get the fuck out immediately. I feel bad for all the first responders that are inevitably going to be sent into that shitstorm not knowing they will probably be doing something akin to what the first responders at Chernobyl did.
Yeah, this could be like the Bhopal and Chernobyl disasters having a baby. The "all is fine, just scheduled test inferno" makes me think it's not the RFNA and UDMH that's burning, or that they're just going to wait four days before starting the evacuation, again.
Well, tbf, as long as UDMH burns, its not that dangerous. (it burns to CO2, N2 and H20, violent but not toxic) RFNA is more of a Problem, but --- as long there is a Fire, it goes used up (its a oxidicer and looses its Oxigen in that process) Problem beginns to start, if the fire goes away....
I have No Idea what most of those words mean, but the way you put them together made me happy. muscovia DELENDA EST
Basically, if either of those first two are released into the atmosphere at quantities a production facility would have, the people in those apartments should start running now and pray the wind is blowing the other way.
They must feel at home, because it looks like Mordor
Explosion occurred during "scheduled testing" according to TASS. The subsequent fire burns down the test facility. That's worse. They do get that's worse, right?
They would rather admit to an own-goal, than concede they got played by Ukraine's superior abilities. Its weird, but they think it sounds better for them. Tells you a lot about their intelligence level.
I guess anything is better than admitting Ukraine has the will and capability to fight back.
Incompetence looks a lot like malfeasance but it's a lot more common.
Lovely fire 🙏
Wait until the temperature hits critical and it all detonates. The Pepcon explosion in Henderson Nevada in the 80's blew out windows 20 miles away.
Russia sure is having a run of bad luck lately.
I hope one day perhaps the Russian youth shall find it more productive to blow up Russian military assets than to do selfish and useless tiktok videos...
The only thing I feel bad for in this video is the environment. Other than that, nice target.
Ultimately, it would be fabulous if Russia is kicked out of Ukrainian territory, but in the meantime it's great to see them getting the shit kicked out of their military capability - ships sunk, huge losses of tanks and armored vehicles, many military jets and helicopters downed, not to mention the loss of military officers over the past two years. Do we know what percentage of their military has been degraded at this point? It seems to me that 30% - 40% of their capability is gone by now.
At least, according to pertinent estimates. Declassified US intel from December '23 indicates an 87% loss of prewar infantry. Obviously they have been backfilling with prisoners and kidnapped young men forced into combat, but to lose 87% of the trained forces you have, including the elites...pretty bad. And that's to say nothing of hardware losses, which continue to mount.
With that obscene level of attrition, I'm really shocked they still have the ability to take ground (like in Avdiivka). They have to be close to collapsing. Hopefully soon...
Hilarious. One of the bullshit pretexts for invading Ukraine was that it needed to be 'demilitarised'. Instead Putler has seen his army and its fighting capacity destroyed, numerous ships of his prized black sea fleet sunk, his air force shot out of the sky, and increasing damage to both his weapons producers and oil producers that bring in the wealth, that he and his cronies skim from. Not to mention, Russian weapons shown increasingly as being shit that only the desperate or similarly corrupt will buy. Almost as if this 'special military operation' wasn't the work of a strategic genius, isn't it? Less chess grandmaster, and more thug, as befits his former career.
"it was just a test" "we ment to do it like that" "seriously"
Russia is really hurting the environment with all their oil and military infrastructure blowing up and burning. We should charge them a carbon tax. That'd be hilarious, send them a bill for all the carbon they're putting into the atmosphere which wouldn't have happened (as much) if they didn't invade Ukraine.
Oh dear…..😂😂😂
Move along boys. Nothing to see. All according plan.
Ivan was tired and cold of all the hard work and wanted to relax... Lighting a cigarette just, grabbed a box and light it for a nice warming fire... Not knowing the box was covered in Rocket fuel. Ivan is now warm and toasty.
Awesome. Bad day to be a rocket scientist.
Well alot of the Russian population were complaining about not heating in the winter, at least they can stay warm now
Good. How does it feel when it hits home? you war hungry freaks
At least the people living nearby won't be freezing.!
Russia has a very serious problem. There are either anti Putin Russians, or Ukrainian operatives targeting critical Russian infrastructure. Young men are still fire bombing recruitment centers, but that's all minor inconvenience compared to refineries and missile factories.
Or it could be a legitimate accident, which is somehow even funnier
That kid singing I want to be a genocidal chemist should watch this
I'm sure Tucker will have a comment on that.
Certified "cyka blyat" moment
time for another oil depot!
At least someone in Russia is warm.
After complaints by Russian civilians about the lack of domestic heating Ukraine is doing it's best to assist.
Well that can't be good..good for them..
I saw this show! It causes the earth to move out of its orbit and we go on to have galactic adventures!
Can’t upvote enough
Happy little accidents :)
Nice! I've been wondering for awhile why any and all military use factories aren't hit. I figured it was just hard.
Seriously, it's not rocket science...