Posted on 08/09/2023 12:21:33 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Local officials in Russia say an explosion at an optical plant in the city of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 kilometers outside Moscow, killed one person and injured at least 43 people on August 9.
Five of the injured are in intensive care with serious burns or head injuries, according to the city administration's Telegram account. Some of the 43 people admitted to a regional hospital have shrapnel injuries, it said.
Officials at the city’s central hospital said that a woman had succumbed to wounds sustained in the blast.
Independent Telegram channel Baza shared images of a tall cloud of smoke and identified the site as the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant, which produces night-vision and other optical devices for the military.
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This optics on this one are not good.
Well played.
We see what you did there
They should have seen this coming.
I am tempted to say that they should have seen it coming, but I won’t give in to temptation.
Probably not a deliberate act, but it’s possible.
Geee, I wonder why that happened.
Optics plants can have some pretty big furnaces and annealing lehrs.
Molten glass is an electrical conductor, and can be kept molten by passing electric current through it.
Coming soon, an explosion at the Washington Compost building, 1 dead, 43 Rats injured.
Just a tit for tat. /spit
Making knockoff shades... Lausch and Bomb.
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BREAKINg:
There has been a massive explosion at the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant near Moscow.
The plant is one of the main producers of military optics for the Russian Army.
Very bad news for Russia
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I don’t know how this can be called an accident. An optical plant wouldn’t have explosive materials at all, or certainly not in such amounts.
It seems like a car or truck bomb.
Russky Military optics plant goes up in smoke.
Socked ‘em in de eye..
They probably didn’t see it coming...
That is true. But they usually don't have lots of artillery shells laying around that get launched out into the neighborhood when the building explodes.
The factory had lots of explosives, and the "story" now in Russian media is that they just made fireworks for display purposes. That still doesn't explain the shells. Or the scale of the secondary explosion.
Note the timing of the blasts in this video
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