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Originally posted by HRK:
Its a little early to blame this on Siberian Separatists, don't you think?

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Russia's Military Has Been Rocked By A String Of Explosions And Fires In Recent Weeks That Have Left Dozens Dead Or Wounded
Ryan Pickrell, Buisness Insider, 8/8/2019

Over the past month and a half, the Russian military has seen a number of serious accidents. Incidents include a fire that claimed the lives of sailors aboard a nuclear submarine, an explosion at an ammunition depot, and an explosion during the testing of a missile engine at a military test facility.

Accidents are certainly not uncommon for the Russian military, which lost its only aircraft carrier last fall when a heavy crane punched a hole in it at the only dry dock suitable for carrying out repairs and maintenance on a ship that size and sank due to a power failure, but the last few weeks have certainly been a challenge.

Russia's latest string of bad luck began with a fire aboard a secret deep-diving nuclear-powered submarine that resulted in 14 deaths. Russian media reports that the submarine was the Losharik, a vessel designed for "intelligence gathering and, probably, the destruction of or tapping into of undersea communications cables," A.D. Baker, a former naval intelligence officer, previously told INSIDER. A suspected fire that ultimately triggered an explosion in the battery compartment killed 14 Russian sailors, a number of which were higher-ranking and distinguished officers. While the incident remains classified at the highest levels, a Russian Navy official said the crew's actions had stopped a "planetary catastrophe", a possible reference to an accident with the sub's nuclear reactor.

On Monday, an ammo depot at a Russian military base in Siberia said to house around 40,000 artillery shells and other weapons suddenly exploded, igniting fires that killed one and injured over a dozen other people. The explosion created a massive fireball, and led local authorities to evacuate thousands of people from surrounding communities within 20 kilometers of the blast. Russia has experienced ammunition depot explosions before. For example, an ammunition storage site in Chapaevsk that housed around 13 million shells exploded in 2013, injuring around 30 people.

On Thursday, a missile engine exploded at a Russian naval base, leaving two dead and eight others injured. Among the dead and wounded were military and civilian personnel. The engine, according to the Russian state media, exploded while specialists at the base in the rural village of Nyonoksa, a town in northern Russia, were testing the rocket engines's "liquid propulsion system." The Nyonoksa range is a critical test site for Russian missile systems, everything from intercontinental ballistic missiles to cruise missiles. Thursday's explosion, the state-run TASS News Agency reported, triggered a spike in radiation in a nearby city. Authorities insist everything is under control.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

《Big snip》

Whatever the deal may be, it looks like there's something unhealthy about hanging out at Russian military installations.

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Originally posted by BBMW:
On wonders how they get a radiation spike from a rocket engine test.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
On wonders how they get a radiation spike from a rocket engine test.

Nuclear propulsion? Robert Heinlein sketched the possibilities in his book "Rocket Ship Galileo". The US Government had a project in the 1970s (I think) about possible development.

flashguy

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
некоторые боеприпасы сделали что-то nekotoryye boyepripasy sdelali chto-to

Translation:
Some ammunition did something.

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Originally posted by BBMW:
Project Pluto, I thought about that. We gave up on it when ICBMs proved viable.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
On wonders how they get a radiation spike from a rocket engine test.

Nuclear propulsion? Robert Heinlein sketched the possibilities in his book "Rocket Ship Galileo". The US Government had a project in the 1970s (I think) about possible development.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
Project Pluto, I thought about that. We gave up on it when ICBMs proved viable.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
On wonders how they get a radiation spike from a rocket engine test.

Nuclear propulsion? Robert Heinlein sketched the possibilities in his book "Rocket Ship Galileo". The US Government had a project in the 1970s (I think) about possible development.

flashguy

Sounds more like Project Orion to me.