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[–] 72 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Holy shit! That's fucking amazing!

Hopefully a lot of people in Moscow are watching

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Absolutely mental scene. Completely bananas

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    If only there was some way to stop this immediately?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    It would be too costly to attach the caps more securely.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Sorry to be serious about jokes, but I thought I’d 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 wasn’t the floating lid design, at least not in its earthly state. I still think they’re neat anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hey, that’s 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 there’s no standardized sizes for containers like that…

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    how about not triggering a series of events that lead to them being blown off?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    Ooh, a new form of turret tossing!

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    First we got cosmonauts, now we got flying saucers!

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    Only natural for the turret toss to evolve in such a way

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Ukraine knows its stoichiometry!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    You can forget how big these refinery/storage places get.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Russian tanks and Russian Fuel Depots seem to share some DNA.

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    It’s party time!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    The icing on the cake was that it was caused by a drunk Russian missile, not a Ukrainian drone.

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  • I want to believe

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Stop vertical video syndrome.

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