NVM, can’t figure out how to get an active link directly to the source of the satellite fire detection website.
This one?
You’re getting the same thing I was: a menu to select parameters and location, not the actual imagery.
At least on my phone.
I’m passingly familiar with FIRMS, since I worked on the SNPP and JPSS ground system, but I can’t get a link to specific imagery working.
I’m getting an interactive map with selectable layers and time scales on my Chromebook.
Could you be more detailed in what you want? Something “liver” like a webcam?
The basic view shows an immense blob at the site of the reported explosion.
I’m not getting a map at all unless I enter the location I want.
I can get the imagery I want if I search for the location, but with the bare link I just get a menu. Although the URL includes coordinates.
I’m going to assume for now it’s a mobile browser thing.
If you zoom in, you’ll see the blob breaks down into a bunch of individual fires (as discriminated by the VIIRS instrument’s 375 meter pixel resolution) that correspond to a whole bunch of individual munitions bunkers all burning.
It can withstand a nuclear strike but not falling debris from shot-down drones?
Some satellite footage here: ‘Biggest attack on Russian soil’ seen in SPACE after drone blitz on ammo dump
The ground-based footage shows not just a (goodness gracious) great ball of fire but several other explosions further away.
Marvin the Martians question is finally answered
That was a mighty impressive fireball/blast. The daylight video was equally spectacular. I’m a bit surprised the video didn’t get more play on mainstream media. Normally, they love that kind of thing. I wondering how much a blow to the Russian army this really was.
Lots of competition from the Lebanon pager, 2-way radio, keypad explosions over the same time period. I see plenty of coverage on the international news.
Seems like a delaying tactic.
Giving permission to hit specific military targets isn’t that difficult to understand.
The ISW has already compiled a list of targets that are in ATACMS range.
It would have to be 1 of 2 things: a drone with a hardened barrel used as a high velocity bunker buster or they flew it in an open door.
My bet would be on the latter. Armor-piercing rounds tend to have a lot of engineering behind them and are hypersonic.
Looks like UAF hit another ammo depot south of the one in Toropets. This is supposedly a screenshot from FIRMS:
Ukraine has apparently hit 3 depots in the last couple days. Here’s a video of a truly impressive explosion from one near the town of Tikhoretsk. The followup post shows part of a rocket that landed 7.5 kilometers from the storage area!
The rocket didn’t land that far away; that was just falling debris from the successfully-intercepted rocket.
I know it wasn’t a nuclear blast, but that mushroom cloud damn well looked like one.
A Ukrainian friend says that the joke going around is that Ukraine is now just requesting NATO send shipments of rockets loaded up with debris
I’m seeing numbers in the kilotons tossed around for these explosions. For comparison, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were in the vicinity of 10 kT. So, no, not nukes, but for practical purposes pretty close to them.
As an aside, folks knew that really big explosions produce mushroom clouds even before the first nukes. It’s tough (and expensive) to make a conventional explosive that big, but it can be (and has been, usually unintentionally) done.
From the US/Internal safety standards; rocket motors and missiles in a propulsive state should be stored facing the same direction, preferably into the back of the earth covered magazine. It’s impossible to predict their flight distance in the event of an accidental initiation. 7.5 km in this case.
And don’t store the damn things on open pads where falling debris can impact them - or drones.
Well, whatever used to be in that bunker, it definitely looked expensive.