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DIY-HP-LED
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A 55 (45 imp) gallon drum of water weighs around 450 lbs and one full of ANFO wouldn't weigh a whole lot less. So, a contract to haul a dozen or more drums of something to somewhere in Russia. A GPS triggered detonator could do it, but the train of fuel cars was rather convenient so remote looks like it might be how it was done.The Ukrainians could have detonated it remotely, they might have had a shipping company transport cargo without the driver knowing any different. Would explain being in the far lane.
The identity of the alleged driver of the truck that exploded on the Crimean bridge was revealed
According to preliminary data, the uncle of the owner of the truck, 51-year-old Makhir Yusubov, was driving the truck that exploded on the Crimean bridge. According to the Baza Telegram channel, his relatives identified him from the security screening footage.
According to them, it was Mahir, who was engaged in private transportation, who was the actual owner of the vehicle. A little over a year ago, he re-registered the car for his nephew, but continued to work on it himself.
Earlier, Mash revealed the identity of the owner of the truck, it turned out to be Boris Yusubov. According to the melon Telegram channels Shot and Baza, his name is Samir. The man sold his car to another person, but the new owner has not yet re-registered the truck for himself. Later it became known that the investigators conducted searches at his place.
The explosion of a truck on the Crimean bridge across the Kerch Strait became known on the morning of October 8. As a result, two automobile spans of the bridge partially collapsed , and seven fuel tanks of the railway train caught fire.
According to the UK, three people died due to the incident . Presumably, they were passengers of a passenger car, which was not far from the blown up truck.
Раскрыта личность предполагаемого водителя взорвавшейся на Крымском мосту фуры
По предварительным данным, за рулем взорвавшейся на Крымском мосту фуры был дядя владельца грузовика — 51-летний Махир Юсубов. Как сообщает Baza, родственники опознали его по кадрам с досмотра. По их словам, именно Махир был фактическим владельцем транспортного средства.lenta-ru.translate.goog
They have a lane open, and the rail bridge is probably weakened from the fire, it will nonetheless clean the Russian civilians or their sympathizers and quislings out of the place and exposed their weakness. It was a huge humiliation for Vlad on his birthday and weakened him politically. Morale in Kherson and the south must have hit rock bottom among the Russians with the news. A big HIMARS ATACM might take the remaining structure down if they hit it at the weak point, so they must be concerned about being cut off like in Kherson, only on a much larger scale.
captainmorgan
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Roger A. Shrubber
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they will do what they can do with missiles and artillery, but the artillery will be in range of Ukrainian weapons, for sure...
if they send men in, it will get ugly, fast, and they will get dead, fast...
my two bits, i'd concentrate all my men on the power plant at Zaporizhzhia, and at least a 15 kilometer circle around it...and work outward from there, continuing to force the russians away from it. that would split Donetsk and Kherson, and further isolate crimea.
that would allow them to clean out crimea, and have a solid base to work from, where the russians couldn't come at them from their flank, not to mention the enormous psychological advantage it would give them.
DIY-HP-LED
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I'm not sure how many missiles they have left, they seemed to be using AA missiles for the precision attacks they have made. Iranian drones will probably have a decreasing effectiveness as they learn how to deal with them tactically and technically. They've been steadily targeting infrastructure and wasting it like artillery, demolishing buildings and plowing fields. They can't hit military targets, especially those on the battlefield, mobility, tactics and poor Russian communications and other things make it too hard. These weapons should be used on military targets and not civilian targets, there are pragmatic as well as moral and legal reasons for this. Now they are buying out of date ammo from N, Korea, using worn out guns and have untrained troops with poor morale driving junk in increasing amounts.
Upping the number of AA defense systems and their quality to Ukraine would be helpful, they are purely defensive weapons, and they should have been training Ukrainian engineers and technicians on patriots as a contingency and if they didn't, they are incompetent. Starting with Ukrainian electronic engineers and programmers, the training can be shortened considerably.
DIY-HP-LED
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DIY-HP-LED
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Crimean bridge blast is the most significant attack since the sinking of Russia's warship.
32,975 views Oct 8, 2022 "This attack on the bridge is another spectacular strangling of the Russian forces in Crimea.
Meanwhile, pro-war Russians call for Blitz on civilian structures in Ukraine as a response to the Crimean bridge blast.
cannabineer
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Relative to TNT (the reference standard) commercial ANFO has a relative effectiveness of 0.74.
Of the high explosives, its two shining properties are relatively low sensitivity (though Beirut showed that even unoiled AN can be sufficiently provoked) and being pretty much dirt-cheap.
DIY-HP-LED
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if you stop the video at 54 seconds and advance it frame by frame, there appears to be two explosions or more in the distance and then the truck closer to the camera goes up. There appear to be only a single set of blast marks on both the standing spans where the tanker cars are most damaged. This truck bomb appears to be two to four times the size of the Oklahoma Muro building bombing. It looks like a 10-ton truck at about 4 X 55 gallon barrels to the ton, each barrel should be around 450 lbs so 40 barrels is the maximum weight capacity, say she was loaded with half of that, 5 tons of ANFO in 20 barrels. I think in Oklahoma they used a half a dozen plastic 55 gallon barrels of ANFO I believe, and it did a lot of damage.
DIY-HP-LED
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If ya use a booster of TNT or plastic, if it's in separate metal drums and one of them is hard wired with the rest being passive, you might get the kind of explosion seen with firebrands and won't achieve maximum efficiency. A fuel tanker truck with a HE booster would have been far more destructive pound for pound, than separate drums unless they were wired in too.
Budzbuddha
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PETN is something that could have been used.
Add plasticizer.
Add plasticizer.
captainmorgan
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cannabineer
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I have spent a fair amount of my youth contemplating such things, back before bad things ruined good times.
DIY-HP-LED
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Why an air burst? It's pretty high up, did they use an old airliner full of ANFO and remote control it? I know of no missile that packs such a conventional explosive punch, to destroy the bridge with a missile ya gotta literally hit the fucking thing!
Budzbuddha
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The Ukrainians are quite clever in their guerrilla warfare tactics / methods. They turn commercial drones into death droppers so it is not hard to fathom a “ suicide truck “ or 2 primed with explosives.
If they managed to wire up a rail car instead then the damage would beextremely severe. Even grain can become explosive.
If they managed to wire up a rail car instead then the damage would beextremely severe. Even grain can become explosive.
DIY-HP-LED
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I built bombs as a kid and set them off in pits dug into a field, used to make my own black powder among other things...
Budzbuddha
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Oh … you’re that kid . I used to blowup frogs with m-80’s ….. LOL
cannabineer
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My mind goes at once to fuel-air. They did hijack a heavy flamethrower vehicle …
… and there is a certain softness to the blast in the dashcam footage seen so far.
I stroke my goatee and say hmmmm.
cannabineer
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I am tempted to go into specifics, but no.
Budzbuddha
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Brother used to have Evel Kneival Sky Cycle play set - add frog - shove firecracker / M80 in mouth / rev it up and launch ………… BOOM
Pepe the frog - “ oh he ded “ … LOL
Pepe the frog - “ oh he ded “ … LOL