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| Photos: aftermath of terrorist attack on hydro power plant in Russia |
| 2010-07-26 |
| On 21st, July some terrorists got into the territory of Baksanskaya hydroelectric power plant. They killed two guards, beat two operators of the generator hall and planted five bombs there. Four of them did work. As a result two generating sets were disabled. All in all the HPP has three generating sets of overall power 25 mW. Terrorists managed to destroy two generating sets and two oil outdoor switchgears. Damage assessment, anyone? Who worked with generators before? |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #5 An amateurish and quickly placed charge of from 3-5 kilos of Semtex probably aided by a few gallons of petrol fire initiator. Just a guess. Professionals would have placed the charge on the shaft itself, not the base. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-26 18:33 |
| #4 Looks like most of the inside damage was 'fire related' except for the electrical controller shown in the second photo and the top deck of the turbine in the third, those may have been 'boomed' by a close-by explosive detonation. Would take a good sized charge to warp the turbine deck (probably laid in at its base), but something smaller like a hand grenade could have damaged the electrical control. The outdoor oil-filled transformer (6th photo down) was damaged in an explosion set by a charge at its base, plus the oil that WAS inside to cool the copper coils spewed out, probably catching fire as it did. Would have taken a fair amount of explosive to do this as the 'cans' around the transformer coils are fairly sturdy as a rule. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-07-26 18:13 |
| #3 Are we sure it wasn't just lousy turbines, like they sold us? |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-07-26 17:04 |
| #2 the who done it is addressed here yes, it appears to be a jihad attack with an ethnic dimension |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-07-26 15:26 |
| #1 Red Storm Rising? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-26 14:38 |