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Fuck.
Like, yeah thats not safe distance by US standards if thats a munitions truck, but he seems to have gotten pretty damned unlucky.
Never says a thing. Must have taken shrapnel to the brain.
War is hell.
Another family without a son thanks to Putin.
Also one fewer Russian soldier thanks to Putin
The Ukrainians are lucky they are so fucking stupid
What is a safe distance?
believe or not, there are formulas for this, you need to know how much of the explosive is there and how much, if any, fragmentation will form. these distances can easily go into kilometers
That's good to know.
So, what is a safe distance?
Check out this research: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/9/331
An explosives safety separation distance, ESSD, from a substance, article, or structure with reacting material, specifically burning material, is one where an individual would not receive second degree burns and would not be exposed to hazardous debris (<79 Joules) at a density greater than one fragment per six hundred square feet
The table below from this site shows an appropriate evacuation distance...
I'd presume the amount of explosive munitions in that burning truck was on the high end...
I love how they mix US and Metric units.
pain
What could go wrong?
In Russia, where he belonged. Now he's fertilizer for a yard or two of sunflowers
Generally if an industrial accident/fire is bigger than your outstretched thumb, you're too close.
Since this has actual shaped projectiles in it, imma say double
not that
the footage of the sky as all that shit is raining down is pretty cool
sparks like this are burning iron (aluminum would be whiter), which means lots of steel fragmented and some ignited
Is that the moon at the end, perhaps?
FAAFO
Too bad he wasn’t closer
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