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Tactical nuke in Ukraine!?! New angle footage...
Live Leak ^ | 2/8/15

Posted on 02/08/2015 9:12:22 PM PST by Enlightened1

New video showing tactical nuke in Ukraine Donetsk region. You can see the ordinance vaporizing the atmosphere!!!!

(Excerpt) Read more at liveleak.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: fae; fuelairexplosive; nuke; russia; tactical; ukraine
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To: DoughtyOne

Not really...

Nuclear bombs are generally detonated at altitude for optimum effect. Hence the tall mushroom.

Tacticals are used is a variety of ways but usually on the ground or below it.

These explosions look more normal with lots of ejecta and smoke. and way smaller..


21 posted on 02/08/2015 9:31:33 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Enlightened1

Later


22 posted on 02/08/2015 9:33:45 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Enlightened1

Yeah...I know...It’s the big cannon...

This occurred before we were able to miniaturize the things even further...


23 posted on 02/08/2015 9:34:19 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Enlightened1

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Looks like it could be a small nuke.

Current technology allows them to be quite small.

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24 posted on 02/08/2015 9:35:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Cold Heat

At around 2000 yards, you’ll know the difference alright.


25 posted on 02/08/2015 9:36:35 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: editor-surveyor

For what purpose? Ukraine who supposedly has no nukes, drops it and opens the door to all out Russian invasion of everything including Kiev. No way the west would back them up after a first use for a trival reason.
And the Russians? Why would they drop on a city their side controls?

Just looks like a big battlefield explosion. They do happen. Look the Marines at Roi-Namur. A grunt threw a satchel charge into a concrete building. Turned out to be a very large storage site for torpedo warheads. The photos look like the whole island went up in one blast.


26 posted on 02/08/2015 9:48:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Enlightened1

looked like a fueled air explosive.

Of course you can make nuke mushroom clouds with Acetylene and plastic garbage bags.


27 posted on 02/08/2015 9:49:48 PM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Enlightened1

Non nuclear, the digital camera being used would have been EMPd if it were. Large fuel-air or massive conventional explosive detonation.


28 posted on 02/08/2015 9:50:17 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: DesertRhino

Last I heard, we had them as small as 10T and 20t, variables you can adjust to requirements.

You want to be at least a quarter mile away for the small ones.


29 posted on 02/08/2015 9:52:55 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Cold Heat

Well radiation detectors in the short term, and two-headed rodents in the longer term


30 posted on 02/08/2015 9:58:44 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: DoughtyOne

IF it was a small nuke—it will only be the first of many to come. Do we really want to blow up the world over Ukraine? A neutron bomb would have thousands die in the next few days.


31 posted on 02/08/2015 10:00:41 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Enlightened1

Must be a fuel air bomb. The air to have small nuke like explosion.


32 posted on 02/08/2015 10:03:19 PM PST by IDFbunny
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To: Enlightened1

I’ve seen the vids.

It wasn’t a nuke, the Rebels say Kiev hit the State Chemicals Factory with a Ballistic Missile, likely a Luna-M. Lots of nasty stuff stored underground there, it seems.

It got hit by an SS-21 missile in the fall, and there was a huge explosion then, as well.


33 posted on 02/08/2015 10:04:30 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Good to know....

I knew it was not a low velocity explosion. A large package and a secondary would explain what we are seeing.


34 posted on 02/08/2015 10:08:50 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Cold Heat

400 yards danger close for 10kt? Nooooo thanks. A rule of thumb for standing in the open is about a yard per pound.


35 posted on 02/08/2015 10:09:26 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Spktyr

I have a question. How do we know that everything electric would be wiped out by a nuke? Have we done it in testing?


36 posted on 02/08/2015 10:21:24 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Really that’s more of an airburst phenomenon.


37 posted on 02/08/2015 10:22:37 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Enlightened1
This is no kind of nuke. If it's unedited video, the target seems to be an ammunition dump.

There's video from Iraq of the controlled demolition of about 450 tons from the Iraqi Air Force's iron bomb stockpile that's about the size of the explosion in this Russian video, if not greater:

Wait for the second detonation...

Even a peewee nuke of 10kt would absolutely dwarf these explosions.

38 posted on 02/08/2015 10:22:51 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Enlightened1

What did Russia do this time??

BTW, where did the footage come from?


39 posted on 02/08/2015 10:26:07 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Enlightened1

Thanks for the mention.


40 posted on 02/08/2015 10:27:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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