A powerful explosion occured in the Russian city of Izhevsk, at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, which produces ballistic missiles.
A powerful explosion occured in the Russian city of Izhevsk, at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, which produces ballistic missiles.
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An explosion occurred near Izhevsk “during testing of rocket engines,” TASS reports, citing emergency services.
The explosion occurred in the area of the Votkinsk plant test site in the village of Yagul, 12 km from Izhevsk.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations, commenting on what happened, announced “technical work” at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant.
Produced, missiles.
19 0 ReplyAccording to Wikipedia, which I know isn't a great source, they still produce Iskander missiles.
6 0 ReplyI think they meant until today 💥 🙂
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“… which USED to produce ballistic missiles. “
10 0 ReplyThe Ministry of Emergency Situations, commenting on what happened, announced “technical work” at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant.
Yet another cigarette accident.
8 0 ReplyGood! More!
7 0 ReplyCan we estimate the diameter of the explosion ? I would guess between 2 km and 10 km. There will be satellite images later on : maybe it will take a few months before we (civil) know...
P.S. : Izhevsk
iswas about 1000km from Ukraine6 0 ReplyI would guess between 2 km and 10 km.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
The largest strategic nuclear weapon ever built, a 50 megaton weapon, would produce a fireball slightly over 5 km.
I think that it is extremely safe to say that whatever fireball the factory had wasn't 10 km in diameter.
4 0 ReplyN.B. : the Halifax explosion was about 0.003 megaton (2.9 kilotons of TNT)
(...) Every building within a 2.6_km (...) radius, over 12,000 in total, was destroyed or badly damaged. (...)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion2 0 Reply
Heeeey yeah!
5 0 ReplyHa
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