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Artillery shell factory exploded in Moscow Oblast (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagorsk_Optical-Mechanical_Plant

Explosion: https://files.catbox.moe/6etp4a.mp4

New close-up: https://files.catbox.moe/xswngr.mp4

Smoke: https://files.catbox.moe/jsmtc5.mp4

Aftermath: https://files.catbox.moe/48lv0q.mp4

Shells: https://files.catbox.moe/yjtbrf.mp4

Shells: https://files.catbox.moe/87alzu.mp4

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[-] dimath@ttrpg.network 18 points 2 years ago

"After the blast, the governor in the region claimed that the factory was actually mainly manufacturing "pyrotechnics".[2]" from your link.

[-] dog@suppo.fi 55 points 2 years ago

Do you ...

Admit your own military factory blew up due to a fuckup/enemy sabotage.
Or lie that it was actually something else to save face, like Russia has done for centuries?

[+] dimath@ttrpg.network -50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sure, or it was just a random semi-legal pyrotechnics production as there are probably plenty. I remember after the cold war some garbage cans on satellite images were claimed to be missile silos.

Edit: ha, wish I could find that 00th forum post with a random Google maps image and people arguing about some green squares on it. Nevertheless, this is true and the point is - not everything is a conspiracy theory and most importantly - Russia is much less organized than you might think.

[-] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

Where are all the shells that seem to be scattered around coming from then?

[-] Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 6 points 2 years ago

Smart Russians spreading misinformation.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you can clearly see ~~122mm~~ ~~57mm?~~ ~~76mm?~~ 122mm without fuze adapter? shells in the last two videos

122mm would make the most sense, because there's fuckton 122mm guns in russian storage. or maybe grad warhead, also 122mm. i don't know anymore, scale of this thing is wack