Holy shit! That's fucking amazing!
Hopefully a lot of people in Moscow are watching
Holy shit! That's fucking amazing!
Hopefully a lot of people in Moscow are watching
If only there was some way to stop this immediately?
It would be too costly to attach the caps more securely.
Sorry to be serious about jokes, but I thought Iβd share the fun fact that these caps are actually not attached at all, which is probably why it got yeeted (yote?) so cleanly. If the storage tank had a top at a fixed height, vapors would accumulate in the air space above the oil, so these huge tops actually float on top of the fluid and rise and fall with the fluid level. You can tell how full they are just by looking at them from above.
Edit: turns out the lid flip tank actually wasnβt the floating lid design, at least not in its earthly state. I still think theyβre neat anyway.

Hey, thatβs cool information. Although, my point still stands: way too expensive to attach those caps in place.
Do you happen to have any idea how large that container might have been? I assume thereβs no standardized sizes for containers like thatβ¦
if you look at google maps, then the tank that blew up is at 55.65279924653206, 37.810112426857245 and it was 45m in diameter. it wasn't a floating roof tank https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/xed-moscow-oil-refinery-after-ukrainian-drone-attacks-what-satellite-images-show-20018
That's the point you don't attach them in place. They have to move up and down, they basically float on the oil.
how about not triggering a series of events that lead to them being blown off?
Tifu by making my storage vessel a highly pressurized vessel temporarily
First we got cosmonauts, now we got flying saucers!
Doesn't even look real.
That's a apartement building sized disk that flew 20 - 30 stories high?
Honestly I was thinking I'd have to delete it for being AI slop based on the thumbnail photo, but the videos are-jaw dropping
it just got way better, a video from a new angle just dropped that shows that the container explosion was indeed set off by a russian air defense missile missing the drone.
edit lafinlandia already beat me to it and posted on the Ukraine ocmmunity here
https://sopuli.xyz/post/47456913
Pure Gold
This is possibly the best example I have ever seen of why air defense is not something you can bullshit.
I'm uncultured. Reference?

From the X-files: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-xfiles-i-want-to-believe-poster
The icing on the cake was that it was caused by a drunk Russian missile, not a Ukrainian drone.
Stop vertical video syndrome.
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