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Lol, does it require a post secondary education to write this nonsense?

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The Anti-Tank Missile required 40 meters of flight to Arm. The white cloud is the sustaining engine lighting up. The missile stuck the tank and disintegrated without exploding

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Thanks. Appreciated.

Do you a background in military technology?

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I was in the Naval Infantry of a foreign nation, in the 70s

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Can you say?

In this essay on The War - https://les7eb.substack.com/p/ukraine-notes-the-long-proxy-war/comments ...

Night vision pictures x 2 of Russian Special Forces on Ukrainian Forces. The stills are a few seconds apart. Whatever Russian Special Forces fired at them, they vanish.

What sort of weapon might this have been?

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Any explosion, and it looks like a rifle grenade, will force the human body to collapse to an horizontal position, some could be thrown a few yards away. The fireball confirms is a barothermic grenade on which the explosion and fireball last a few more milliseconds than a plain, explosive grenade. All the casualties may be blurred by the fireball. I remember day time footage of the exact spot, showing bodies strewn around burned vehicles.

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Unrelated to these essays, any commentary on the nature of the Beirut port area explosion? Much speculation from people who know nothing concerning munitions and the signs they give off, say, colour, shape of blast, duration, blast pressure, one explosion or two and other factors.

Not my field so I do not speculate on whether stacks of NH4NO3 can / cannot spontaneously generate such effects. NH4NO3 can be self-oxidizing under certain conditions but that does not enable one to draw any conclusions.

I'd appreciate the input of any munitions professionals on this.

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The Beirut Explosion was caused by Ammonium Nitrate and wasn't an atomic explosion. If it had been an atomic explosion, high levels of radiation would be detectable for years. There was an initial fire and explosion of stored Fireworks. The Ammonium Nitrate explosion came afterwards. AMMONIUM NITRATE CAN EXPLODE BY ITSELF. https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/08/07/why-does-ammonium-nitrate-explode-14954

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Thank you Les. A total mind fuck for all. So sad.... evil...and most people don't know anything.

Greetings from central vic

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Great to hear that people are taking notice here.

Which town BTW in Victoria?

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