Watch Ukraine's Largest Munitions Depot Transformed Into Massive Fireball

The Drive ^ | March 24, 2017 | Tyler Rogoway

[Freeport]

Uh Oh! There's video too at the site.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Sabotage.

[silverleaf]

Paging boo hoo girl ...

[baltimorepoet]

They’ve got that boom boom pow.

I suspect Putin is jackin’ their style.

[VietVet876]

This is going to produce better video than the Mexican fireworks factory. Popcorn time.

[NonValueAdded]

Black Tom redux

[Alas Babylon!]

[bert]

Actually, there are two vidios

One wonders how there was a n eye in the sky at the very start of the destruction

[RedWulf]

Eh, I’m not ruling Russia out, but the Ukrainians are a bunch clowns when it comes to safty.

[Pollster1]

I don’t blame the Russians for Hillary being a lousy candidate. This is different. I assume Russia helped the Ukraine with their munitions storage.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

There was a reason there was a “No Smoking” sign posted. /s

Sabotage is possible, it could also be poor storage practices. My battalion cleaned up an Iraqi munitions dump (literally, all of it dumped in a wadi a few hours north of Baghdad) in the Spring/Summer of 2003. It took months of very careful work to remove everything from pistol ammo to artillery rounds to SAMs.

We only had one fire, which led to an exciting day, but berms and terrain helped contain the damage and nobody was hurt.

[mountainlion]

I was in Viet Nam when they blew up the ammo dump ans saw the black cloud 30 miles away. I was in a bunker for TET 68 when the ammo bunker I helped build went up at CuChi.

[grania]

the Ukrainians are a bunch of clowns when it comes to safety

That looks like a whole lot of munitions stored in one place and so close to the fighting in eastern Ukraine. What's the west to do? Give Ukraine more stuff to be blown up, thus not meeting other military needs? Go into full-out war defending Kiev (that coup never did represent the whole country) and ignoring the terrorism and security issues in Europe?

Amazing, the way the world keeps turning. Who could've ever written a book or produced a movie as far-fetched as it's all become?

[Freeport]

Ouch.

[Alas Babylon!]

[Red Badger]

I hate it when that happens....................

[fella]

Ooopskies!

[digger48]

Ooooh.....ahhhhhhh!

Big bada boom

[silverleaf]

Drone footage
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iclPotF3zsw

[Bigg Red]

Oh, dear. Prayers.