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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Oopsie woopsie, the factowy made a big boomie boomie

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Beautiful

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Bring the war home to these cunts

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess, fire caused by someone smoking a cigarette again?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Nah, "unlicensed pyrotechnic factory" this time

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Is unexpected fireworks for enjoyment of the people”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unannounced festivities

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Special celebratory operation

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

TV News at my country claimed this was a factory that "made optics for the Russian military". Nice big optics explosion though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well they did have to stuff all the smoke and mirrors inside the optics.

The smoke escaped this time.

Next time it will be an explosion of mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[+] [email protected] -50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Smart Russians spreading misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

who doesn't enjoy some recreational grad salvo?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Manufacturing shells in the middle of a populated area? How Russian of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Why waste lives and resources fighting Russia on the battlefield when they're perfectly capable of blowing themselves up?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oblast indeed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

(••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any videos of the actual explosion?
Are the two last ones scattered shells around the region?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Video of the explosion

Edit: OP has the same video in the top link now too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I like how the guy's first reaction was to take out his phone and calmly record it 🗿

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’d have been terrified lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As Russia will not end this war, the Russian war machine must be destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Damn Wikipedia is quick.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

whoopsie!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Blyat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s great

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Eto voenkomat? Eto voenkomat?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Good.