Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukrainian Ammo

[Achilles]

Kaboom! Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukrainian Ammo

A single grenade-carrying drone set off one of the largest explosions in recent memory.

By Kyle Mizokami

Jul 27, 2017

A drone carrying a grenade infiltrated an ammunition dump in Ukraine, setting off an explosion that caused an astounding billion dollars worth of damage. The incident points to the growing use of drones in wartime, particularly off the shelf civilian products harnessed to conduct sabotage and other attacks.

Ukraine's domestic intelligence service, the SBU, believes that a drone carrying a Russian thermite hand grenade caused a series of titanic explosions at Balakliya, a military base in Eastern Ukraine. Amateur video of the incident posted on YouTube shows a raging fire spewing out of control artillery rockets, and an explosion and shockwave that sent civilians nearby reeling.

One person was killed in the attack and five were injured.



The drone is believed to have carried a ZMG-1 thermite grenade. Thermite, a combination of iron oxide (rust) and aluminum powder. The stuff burns extremely hot and easily could have gotten through wooden crates to detonate the munitions inside. The ammo dump is just 60 miles from the Russian/Ukrainian border, where fighting recently took place.

According to PM contributor David Hambling writing at Scout Warrior, it's not the first time military bases in Ukraine have been hit by drones. A similar attempt to blow up the Balakliya base took place in December 2015, when drones dropped 14 grenades. The fires were extinguished by Ukrainian servicemen, and one grenade, a ZMG-1, was recovered.

In October 2015, an attack on an ammunition depot at Svatovo destroyed 3,000 tons of explosives and damaged 1,700 nearby homes. Two other attacks on ammo dumps took place in February, and another facility was attacked in March.

Guerrilla groups, terrorists, and perhaps even governments worldwide have rapidly weaponized consumer drones, effectively turning hobbyist devices into lethal weapons capable of killing. In 2016, two French Special Forces soldiers were injured and two Kurdish fighters were killed by an exploding ISIS drone. ISIS has conducted numerous drone attacks during the Mosul campaign and terrorism experts fear weaponized drones could spread outside conflict zones.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...-ukraine-ammo/

[naturallysweet]

Or, some idiot was playing and set them on fire.

[Trasael Adnepos]

More proof Ukraine is a literal powder keg (pun intended), since McShame, Hellaree, Scary and Zero helped take out their democratically elected government and install a bunch of Nazis in their haste to keep Russia hot enough to be a potential fuse they could light for the WWIII they had planned to turn US to tyranny forever, handily reduce world population, and work the Hegelian Dialectic to cement their NWO.

Here's to giving Thanks once more we actually had an election, that DJT prevailed against a stacked deck by direct Divine Intervention, that The Plan has been disrupted or at least forestalled. It's up to US, you know.

[BugoutBear]

that DJT prevailed against a stacked deck by direct Divine Intervention

I believe that.

Btw I believe that explosion took place a while ago = but it's still a big freakin' explosion!

[ractivist]

A thousand dollar drone can carry a small payload of thermite and be controlled from quite a distance. It is a lethal weapon delivery system. Keep that in mind when you drive around and notice all the targets of oppoertunity that exist. We live in an open society, a very open and vulnerable society..........the world has changed drastically over the last decade, as well as the weapons of war. When they decide it's time to unleash on us, it's gonna burn..........

[Thunder]

An imaginative mind can come up with dozens of neat Ideas in a few minutes. Our entire system is sooo vulnerable.

[Rhodie]

An imaginative mind can come up with dozens of neat Ideas in a few minutes. Our entire system is sooo vulnerable.

So true, just drive around looking and observing all the time, with the thought of how best to do some mayhem. (Rebel Rouser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPG_Y-_BZI)

Googled the city, it looks like the ammo dump is on the northeast side, lots of buildings with most surrounded by an earthen berm. And in some places lots of stacked crates just surrounded by berms.
They do have good separation for each position.

It wouldn't take much to get a few going off. Drones seem to do the job very well.
Looks like it might have been in March of 2017?

If it's the central facility in the city center that went off, they are lucky that more people didn't die.

Rhodie

[326326]

we are watching the art of war change in front of our faces.....

[Rhodie]

If you train and prepare to fight the last war, you could lose the next one very easily.

The saying 'train outside the box,' says only a small part. It's training, thinking 'what if, why not', a pin prick here, one over there, keep them guessing, and a step behind, you might have a chance.

All of the man made weapons are just tools, the mind is the weapon that can and does win battles.

Rhodie

[326326]

agreed