Posted on 04/27/2022 12:02:41 AM PDT by Cronos
At least 17 people have died in last week's fire at a Russian military research facility, authorities said Monday.
The regional government in Tver, a city about 112 miles northwest of Moscow, said that so far only five of the victims had been identified.
The blaze at the Central Research Institute for Air and Space Defense of the Russian Defense Ministry in Tver erupted Thursday and it took authorities a day to put it out.
Officials previously said 27 people were injured and 13 of them were hospitalized.
The cause of the fire wasn't immediately clear.
The research institute was involved in the development of some of the state-of-the-art Russian weapons systems, reportedly including the Iskander missile.
Sad for the people that died
Yeah, I don’t like seeing Russians die either.
Hopefully it will slow down some of their advanced efforts.
I think of all the people that would still be living if
this war hadn’t been started.
Can’t say this was a direct connect though.
Something may have gotten out of hand in the design bureau.
Their ultra-high-speed centrifuges went into overdrive, overheated, and exploded, thus releasing plenty of highly-corrosive uranium hexafluoride gas into the air. Fires broke out as a consequence.
Seems that the program that runs the centrifuges might have had a "bug" - or maybe a "glitch" appeared spontaneously.
Darn that Israeli software!
Regards,
Most likely an inside job, getting rid of evidence that a large chunk of the budget for this bureau was looted for yachts and villas in Italy just like every other part of the Russian military.
Seeing how the Russian army has performed never assume malice when incompetency will do.
They were probably ordered to increase missile production by to supply the unexpected war and cut out a lot of safeguards to do so.
I have been in lots of buildings where research and design is conducted. At least in America you won’t find the stuff that goes boom in those buildings. At most there may be containers that hold the explosive or the whatever, but not anything lethal. When a test is to be conducted the containers go to special facilities where people certified to handle explosives or whatever will add the materials. Then the assembled devices will go to wherever they are tested. A research facility is no more dangerous than an ordinary office.
Now, there are other ways people could die. I was in a facility where a leak in a dry nitrogen line caused all of the air in a classified lab to be replaced with nitrogen and everyone in the room died. But in thirty plus years that was the only occasion where any large number died because of the nature of the facility.
What I’m saying is, this is an attack. It had to be sophisticated in that whatever did this was brought past some good security.
Having said all of that if I wanted to kill everyone in an office environment I’d bring in a tray of poisoned cookies. They don’t ask where they’re from or who brought them. They just snarf them down like animals at the zoo. (Just sayin’.)
Good common sense analysis.
Of course it could also be that the Russians don’t and didn’t follow the safety protocols you outline and kept everything in the same building. For security and secrecy
That’s also likely
I like the cookies idea. Have to remember that one
“Of course it could also be that the Russians don’t and didn’t follow the safety protocols you outline and kept everything in the same building. For security and secrecy”
I consider that extremely unlikely. The reason is the nature of engineers. The more senior the engineer the more they think that the rules don’t apply to them. An engineer with something unsafe is unsafe.
It was liberated
I doubt that it was caused by the Ukes. Tver Oblast is very far from the front. More likely, it was an industrial accident. They make fuel air bombs there, afterall...
Yes but US facilities don’t have drinking fountains with vodka ...
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