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2022-07-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Ukrainian cargo plane which crashed in fireball explosion in Greece was carrying 11 TONS of weapons including mortar shells and land mines to Bangladesh - as all crew members are confirmed dead

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-17 09:11|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Why were they sending them to Bangledesh?

Posted by Chris 2022-07-17 10:18|| 2022-07-17 10:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Just the arms trade, Chris. The airplane was only transport. I added the key points from the article to the post.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-17 10:42|| 2022-07-17 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing to see here. Just business as usual. We can all go back to watching Lord of War which by some coincidence is about a Ukrainian arms dealer.

Posted by SteveS 2022-07-17 13:08|| 2022-07-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm still pretty confused. I thought Ukraine needed all the weapons they could get their hands on to fight the Russians? Why are they sending anything at all out of the country? Not sarcasm or snark--I genuinely don't get this.

Posted by Tom 2022-07-17 13:12|| 2022-07-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.

Posted by SteveS 2022-07-17 13:25|| 2022-07-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Land mines. Would be problematic for a nominal NATO member in waiting to use.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 13:26|| 2022-07-17 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 By way of Syria, where some mysteriously fell off the plane's back ramp...? Or past Bangladesh to some buyer in Myanmar?

Posted by magpie 2022-07-17 13:37|| 2022-07-17 13:37|| Front Page Top

#8 No, Bangladesh did make an order of tracer mortars for training a year ago. They shopped around, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine... before they selected a Serbian firm; the Bangladesh defence ministry have a standing contract with them to supply trainer equipment and explosives ordnance.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-17 13:52|| 2022-07-17 13:52|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm like Tom confused. I would think with the situation as it is, screw the contracts.

Posted by Chris 2022-07-17 16:25|| 2022-07-17 16:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Dron - Tracer Mortars? Hot visual rounds that let you know adjustments needed? Never heard of them and Wiki is stoopid on it

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-17 16:32|| 2022-07-17 16:32|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Yupp. For training purposes. Round contains pyrophoric powders like iron sulphate mixed with magnesium. Brightly shining tracers to track performance and such, learn how to aim.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-17 16:37|| 2022-07-17 16:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Which is why when the rescue op landed in the area, they had to wait hours before the smoke cleared. There was magnesium fires burning, and all sorts of bright bangetty bangs. So I'm told.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-17 16:40|| 2022-07-17 16:40|| Front Page Top

#13 "Willy Peter will make you a Believer..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 16:46|| 2022-07-17 16:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Thx

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-17 16:59|| 2022-07-17 16:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.

Not much different than using giant Russian transports for moving US made _____ to SA.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-17 18:35|| 2022-07-17 18:35|| Front Page Top