what looks like a crater there. Of course, that may just be... 
where the outhouse pit was--
Posted on 11/29/2011 11:31:05 PM PST by neverdem
The large, deadly explosion at an Iran military base in Iran on Nov. 12, which Iranian authorities have called an accident that set back research work there by a few days, appears to have been far more devastating than their description suggested, according to an analysis of newly released commercial satellite images of the blast site.
The images reveal vast destruction and chaotic disarray across a sprawling complex composed of more than a dozen buildings and large structures.
The Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington, made the satellite images public Monday, along with an analysis of the damage. “It was pretty amazing to see that the entire facility was destroyed,” Paul Brannan, the report’s author, said Tuesday in an interview. “There were only a few buildings left standing.”
It was impossible to determine from the images whether the explosion had been a simple accident or an act of sabotage.
The force of the explosion was so great that it shook windows in many surrounding towns, according to Iranian news sites and witnesses quoted at the time. But no photographs of the blast damage were released by the Iranian government, which has become increasingly sensitive about its military capabilities as tensions escalate with the West over its missile and nuclear programs.
The base, set in an isolated patch of Iranian desert ringed by a security cordon, is about 30 miles west of Tehran and three miles west of the town of Bidganeh.
The explosion is already known to have killed 17 members of the armed forces, including a founder of the country’s missile program, Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, presided over a vast state funeral for General Moghaddam and 16 other members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps two days after...
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Bull crap, it would have been the first bomb in the history of bombs that left no crater. Ground level explosion on concrete pad.
Good show, to whomever got in there and did the trick. Spectacular. They will win a nice, shiny award, but will never be able to show it off outside of the confines of their organization no doubt. Hip Hip Hooray!
Does Carl Rove still have his weather machine? Bush didn’t call him a magnificent bastard for nothing...
can we say pulse weaponry? hmmmmmm...just break out the hoodoo on the Islamos and tell them God did it through the newly discovered ark of the covenant..on His own...
Sympathetic explosions of what, in every single other bulding? That doesn't even match the official Iranian position
...saying that it happened while ammunitions were being moved.
Here's an Israeli reaction:
"Not every explosion over there should be tied to reconnaissance and stories from the movies," Dan Meridor, Israel's minister for intelligence and atomic matters, told Army Radio. Saying, "it isn't right to expand on this topic," Meridor nonetheless went on to acknowledge that espionage has set back Iran's nuclear program. "There are countries who impose economic sanctions and there are countries who act in other ways," Meridor said.
The lack of craters is very curious to me. The "after" picture was apparantly taken ten days after the -- ahh -- "event." The Iranians might have filled in any craters during that time, as a face-saving gesture.
But other, more interesting explanations come to mind as well.
There was another one yesterday, reportedly bigger, near Isfahan. Maybe it was their ground fleet of F-14’s that are now ready for the Alcoa recycling plant.
Or tungsten blade.
interesting..thanks..
High explosives (ammo, my azz) - either missle parts or compression chamber.
Israel loudly rattles the sabre two weeks ago....
what looks like a crater there. Of course, that may just be... where the outhouse pit was--
Indeed.
1) Separate explosions with radial debris fields
2) NO noticable cratering.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Busy bees at work.......... :-)
haaahaaaahaahaahaaahaa. Danny boy, you are da man!
Yup, it blowed up real good!
Hey, the soccer field is still there...
All your base are belong to us
Is it really wise to put these BULL’s eyes on the ground??
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