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2009-11-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 ...Nice to see the ~~Soviet~~ Russian ammo guys haven't improved their style any.

The last big accident there was in 84 or 85 at the primary weapons storage site for the Soviet Atlantic Fleet near Murmansk. That one was a hoot:

1)Two vehicle carrying ammo run head on into each other (ALL Western WSAs/bomb dumps have one way traffic patterns - cuts down on this sort of thing)
2)They explode in front of a storage building whose protective doors are open (apparently the doors either didn't close well or could'nt close at all)
3)The ammo in the building goes up and takes the buildings next to it with them, starting a chain reaction of all the storage buildings. (Western sites use Quantity/Distance requirements that keep this sort of thing from happening - I saw the results of a Daisy Cutter cooking off inside a mag in CA many years ago, and although the building was replaced with a 75 ft crater the mags on either side were damaged beyond repair but protected the ammo inside)
3)A spectacular visual display that was - at first - mistaken for a low yield nuclear detonation. So much ammo went up that for about a year, the Soviet Atlantic Fleet was pretty much incapable of combat operations.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-11-14 13:16|| 2009-11-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 VIDEO

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-14 16:30|| 2009-11-14 16:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike K - always telling stories that warm my cockles. Don't stop!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-14 16:35|| 2009-11-14 16:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Note it is in the middle of a city of 600K people.

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-14 16:36|| 2009-11-14 16:36|| Front Page Top

#5 That's ok, 3dc. People don't go off the way that tightly packed explosives do, so the explosion would no doubt damp off fairly quickly once it got into the neighborhoods. :-(

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-14 21:29|| 2009-11-14 21:29|| Front Page Top

#6 "VIDEO"

Great fireworks display, 3dc - thanks.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-14 23:56|| 2009-11-14 23:56|| Front Page Top

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