July 27, 2017, 07:57 PM
MikeinNCthat is a hell of a conflagration...
but what is going on?? (don't speak Russian)
July 27, 2017, 08:07 PM
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"
July 27, 2017, 08:07 PM
RaiseHalA billion dollars up in smoke

July 27, 2017, 08:31 PM
cslingerIt's always amazed me how such little things can do so much damage. PT boats taking out battleships come to mind.
July 27, 2017, 08:37 PM
RHINOWSOFrom 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.

July 27, 2017, 08:38 PM
sigmonkeyMunitions storage/dump hit.
Oh yeahhhhh.
Gotta love secondaries.
July 27, 2017, 08:45 PM
MattW...and boom goes the dynamite
All jokes aside, if that's how it played out, that's extremely low tech and targets are limitless.
July 27, 2017, 09:22 PM
dewhorsequote:
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.