Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
Fake. Watch the second video at the bottom. Also notice that in every shot, the missile always comes from the left.
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spat
.950 JDJ
A suicide bomber with 2700 tons of ANFO in his trunk ?
Unless you just think it was a bomber who started the initial fire, then got way more than he was expecting.
I wonder if he gets extra virgins for that ?
I found a longer version of this same clip
This just took on a whole new layer of confusion. If that is genuinely a bomb or missile and not just a digital alteration or some atmospheric anomaly it's clearly an act of war.
BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
Its.... fake.
The one thing that is t adding up,
If that warehouse really was a target and there was a military strike about to hit it,
What are the odds that it would be on fire minutes before a bomb strikes it? Would a country really try that hard to disguise their involvement in an attack, to find a way to set fire to it as to make it look like an industrial fire before striking it? Why not just let it burn then?
It doesn't make sense.
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
Nah, that never happens.
BDinPutnam
.475 A&M Magnum
Well gee, this narrows it down.
Lebanon president: Beirut explosion either due to negligence or missile, bomb
At least 10 times in 6 years, authorities from Lebanon’s customs, military, security agencies and judiciary raised alarm that a stockpile of explosive chemicals was being kept.
www.usatoday.com
spat
.950 JDJ
There is no non nuclear air deliverable weapon capable of coming within a couple orders of magnitude of that blast.
It was not an airstrike.
whatwasithinking
.40 S&W
That we know of ....
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
Note to self... Self, when things get real, stay away from the windows. Got it.
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
I honestly didn't think air strike when I first saw videos of the explosion. I initially thought it was a fire set to cover up the real explosion or the real reason for the explosion. But I guess a warehouse full of that much ammonium nitrate catching fire would do it. I mean, it happened in Galviston.
I don't recall there being any fire fighters or other emergency vehicles in the videos though...
soylentBlue
.357 mag
There are so many camera angles of the explosion that if there was a missile or bomb, it would appear in more than just this one video.
BREAKING: Lebanon's president has said an investigation into the Beirut blast is exploring the possibility it was caused by "a rocket or a bomb" - Sky News
Trump said his General's told him it is likely a bomb when it happened. Looks like it's going in that direction.
Trump said his General's told him it is likely a bomb when it happened. Looks like it's going in that direction.
spat
.950 JDJ
It's just not possible to airlift something with the explosive power of 2700 *tons* of ANFO if it isn't nuclear.
For comparison, the GBU43 MOAB is one of the largest conventional weapons in the world. It has an explosive yield approx equivalent to 11 tons of TNT.
Even figuring in the fact that TNT is a much better explosive that the dirty AN in that warehouse, it's still 100x smaller than the warehouse that went up.
If you had some super secret high explosive that could pack that much energy into a package light enough to be carried by even a large cargo plane, it would likely be powerful enough to initiate a nuclear fusion explosion without a fission precursor.
That would throw nuclear proliferation into a whole new realm. Suddenly you wouldn't need a massive industrial infrastructure to make a nuke, you'd just need a decent chemistry lab.
whatwasithinking
.40 S&W
If I remember correctly, the delivery vehicle for a MOAB is a C-130 (or at least it was used in at least one instance).
I remember a report a while back (5 years?) that a huge blast very similar to Beirut's happened in Yemen when they had their border (oil) dispute with Saudi Arabia. It was being reported as a nuclear weapon - neutron bomb.
I remember a report a while back (5 years?) that a huge blast very similar to Beirut's happened in Yemen when they had their border (oil) dispute with Saudi Arabia. It was being reported as a nuclear weapon - neutron bomb.
stokes
.338 Win Mag
If there was 2700 tons of AN stored there,you wouldnt need a nuke to create that, just any missile or rocket would do,But I do believe that missile in the video is a fake,for now
Hard video to watch when you know what's coming. Poor people. Another example of how ferocious the blast was.
So what caused that bright red coloration to the initial blast that generated the shockwave.
From what I've read if it was ammonia nitrate that burns white.
From what I've read if it was ammonia nitrate that burns white.
spat
.950 JDJ
It burns white, but this wasn't burning, it was detonating, so it couldn't absorb any additional oxygen from the air (no time).
Nitrogen dioxide is a redish gas and could have been present in a detonation (IIRC).
Of course this was a whole warehouse complex and they supposedly stored fireworks components there too, so maybe there were a few tons of iron oxide that got lofted into the air by the explosion.