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A powerful explosion occured in the Russian city of Izhevsk, at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, which produces ballistic missiles. (streamable.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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An explosion occurred near Izhevsk “during testing of rocket engines,” TASS reports, citing emergency services.

The explosion occurred in the area of the Votkinsk plant test site in the village of Yagul, 12 km from Izhevsk.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations, commenting on what happened, announced “technical work” at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Produced, missiles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, which I know isn't a great source, they still produce Iskander missiles.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think they meant until today 💥 🙂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I just got wooshed 🤦

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Time to update that wiki...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

“… which USED to produce ballistic missiles. “

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The Ministry of Emergency Situations, commenting on what happened, announced “technical work” at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant.

Yet another cigarette accident.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Good! More!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Can we estimate the diameter of the explosion ? I would guess between 2 km and 10 km. There will be satellite images later on : maybe it will take a few months before we (civil) know...

P.S. : Izhevsk ~~is~~ was about 1000km from Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would guess between 2 km and 10 km.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

The largest strategic nuclear weapon ever built, a 50 megaton weapon, would produce a fireball slightly over 5 km.

I think that it is extremely safe to say that whatever fireball the factory had wasn't 10 km in diameter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

N.B. : the Halifax explosion was about 0.003 megaton (2.9 kilotons of TNT)

(...) Every building within a 2.6_km (...) radius, over 12,000 in total, was destroyed or badly damaged. (...)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That'll be damage from the blast, rather than the fireball. Can't see blast damage in the video, so I assume that you're talking about the fireball.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, my first comment was about the fireball. Also, I am looking at the news today and there is not much more now than there was yesterday about it ... I will watch the news again to know more in the next few days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the radius of damage have a fitting name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Guess i meant "blast radius". Versus the fireball radius (this one has no fancy name). Just remembered nukemap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Heeeey yeah!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ha