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2011-06-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Arms Depot Blasts Force Mass Evacuation

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The Google coordinates for this site are 56.35.44.86N 053.05.35.80E, if anyone's interested. I remember this site from my years of keeping track of such things. It's pretty big.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-06-04 13:50|| 2011-06-04 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 OP-

Sir, do you remember the Great Murmansk Kaboom Of 1985? The main weapons storage area for the Atlantic Red Banner Fleet went up in a series of blasts that had a lot of people scared for a few minutes that a nuclear warhead had gone off. Turns out that the Soviet ordnance guys had problems closing the doors on the mags (Socialist engineering triumphs) and didn't like the fact that they had to drive one way in the storage area (lots safer, don't ya know). A collision between two trucks, one of which was carrying SLCM warheads. Put the Soviet Atlantic Fleet out of the warfighting business for almost a year.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-04 20:07|| 2011-06-04 20:07|| Front Page Top

#3 heh heh - I love history repeated

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-04 21:14|| 2011-06-04 21:14|| Front Page Top

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