The video of the bomb falling and then detonating several seconds later is all over Telegram. Or at least, it’s all over Twitter, and these sorts of videos on Twitter are almost always reposts from Telegram. Whilst the Russian government’s ability to lie with a straight face should never be underestimated, denying that a bomb fell at all was not going to be a great PR strategy.
Article says:
“four apartments in a building on Shalandina Street were destroyed” and “… the explosion … had a blast radius of about 20 meters”.
I’m curious how what is being represented as a crate of ammunition can “explode” when it falls out of a plane, let alone do so much damage. They’d have been better off blaming yet another careless Russian smoker amidst some of their fiercely explosive urban infrastructure.
Don’t think it was a crate. More likely a large conventional bomb, probably intended to hit Kharkiv using the Russian JDAM copy but the wings failed or something.
Munition lands at 0:10 and detonates at 0:29
Best guess by bigger experts than I say it was about right for a 500kg bomb with a short delay fuse so it could burrow.
I see the impact and the explosion, but I couldn’t see the actual bomb.
My sympathies are for the dude in the white car that got lifted and tossed across the street by the explosion.
My thoughts exactly.
It was probably traveling rather quickly if it were able to burrow.
I thought the initial smoke was someone falling out a window.
They tried that when the first V2 rockets landed on London. That story lasted for about 2 weeks, IIRC
I’m certainly no expert but thought that that size bomb would have a MUCH bigger badda BOOM.
What is the advantage of a bomb burrowing, other than hitting the folks in the basement?
Only way to take out a hardened bunker. Also good for cratering runways, trashing railroads, destroying foundations, etc.
The one dropped wasn’t nearly big enough, but with a very large burrowing bomb, you can create a camouflet. Those are really fun.
If this was indeed a 500Kg bomb, it was probably this.
That has a 300Kg load of high explosive. (The remaining weight is the iron fragmentation body and the other hardware.)
Still, 300Kg detonating at an unknown depth… might not look as impressive but would still move a lot of earth.
How the heck do you leave a 20-meter crater in a city, and only injure two people?
It’s much harder to repair a road or runway when there’s a gigantic crater (caused by a burrowing bomb) instead of just a bit of cracked pavement.
My first thought is, “the hell does that have to do with bombing a city?”, but the pilot bombed the wrong place.
Hit a park or other open space after dark.
“What’s this red button do? … Oh.”
Maybe a month or so ago it was noted that Ukraine’s fighters were being modified to drop JDAMs. Any evidence that they are being used?
I’m surprised any of these Wagner fighters survived the battlefield and made it home this quickly. Of course they continued their thuggery and are a concern for local police.