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Can make a BIGGGG mess.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/MpwEZ_9VLD8


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that is a hell of a conflagration...

but what is going on?? (don't speak Russian)



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"Ukraine's domestic intelligence service, the SBU, believes that a drone carrying a Russian thermite hand grenade caused a series of titanic explosions at Balakliya, a military base in Eastern Ukraine. Amateur video of the incident posted on YouTube shows a raging fire spewing out of control artillery rockets, and an explosion and shockwave that sent civilians nearby reeling"
 
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A billion dollars up in smoke Eek


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It's always amazed me how such little things can do so much damage. PT boats taking out battleships come to mind.


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From a tactics side, you have to admire the ingenuity, if indeed that was the case.

Nice cook off of the rockets with secondaries, that's always entertaining. Big Grin
 
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Munitions storage/dump hit.

Oh yeahhhhh.

Gotta love secondaries.




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...and boom goes the dynamite


All jokes aside, if that's how it played out, that's extremely low tech and targets are limitless.
 
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Originally posted by arfmel:
"Ukraine's domestic intelligence service, the SBU, believes that a drone carrying a Russian thermite hand grenade caused a series of titanic explosions at Balakliya, a military base in Eastern Ukraine. Amateur video of the incident posted on YouTube shows a raging fire spewing out of control artillery rockets, and an explosion and shockwave that sent civilians nearby reeling"


This is in the Kharkiv Oblast (state), my inlaws live in Kharkiv. This is only 96Km away....

This was a while back...if I remember correctly

Unsettling if it was Russian as the war has not gone that far north.

My sister in laws office overlooks a tank depot/repair yard.
 
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