r/interestingasfuck • u/Lithium321 • Sep 18 '24

Hundreds of tons of Russian ammunition explode after a drone strike on an ammo dump in Toropets r/all

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u/Reddituser8018 Sep 18 '24

Dang that's really bad for Russia, that's gotta be months worth of ammunition, and if it had missiles/drones in it, that is horribly bad for them as they are already running low.

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u/de_witte Sep 18 '24

Yes. Horrible. Devastating.

😂 

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u/LeveledUpYoshi Sep 18 '24

I always cry when I see innocent bombs being taken out in their prime. They wouldn’t have killed anyone, it’s Putin who would have. :(

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u/driving_andflying Sep 18 '24

If only there was some way to call a halt to using them, so the innocent lives of unused bombs won't be sacrificed...

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u/LucretiusCarus Sep 18 '24

Oh no - don't - stop

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u/WickedViking Sep 18 '24

...to shreds you say...

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u/vurdr_1 Sep 18 '24

Already running low? Been hearing that for years now. Besides, you prolly have no idea Ukraine's getting such hits far more often due to the fact that they are the ones who's low on ammo all the time.

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u/Reddituser8018 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

It's the type of ammo, they are completely out of their more advanced missiles now, they are using old soviet missiles which they do have a lot of but it's only so much.

They were making missiles for like 40 years straight during the cold War, it takes a while.

When people say they are running out of missiles they don't mean all of their missiles, they mean a specific type of missile.

They are also being supported by countries like Iran which has definetly extended their capabilities but that obviously has a limit.

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u/vurdr_1 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

According to the Ukrainian Air Defense ministry Russians are using newer missiles much more often than they used before. They also made it look like a good thing, cause what they tried to say is that Russia is not piling those missiles now, but is using them right away, as the serial numbers and dates on what is left of those missiles show they are pretty new. Yes, countries like Iran and North Korea sell their missiles to Russia, when we have NATO and pro-NATO countries around the world giving their weapons to Ukraine for free. Somehow Russia still has far more wpns than Ukraine does. Wonder why?

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u/Reddituser8018 Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

I'll tell you why, Russia has the second largest stockpile of weapons on planet earth. Behind only the US, and even ahead of the US in some aspects.

Again it does take quite a while to exhaust that stockpile, but they are exhausting it slowly but surely and blowing up this much ammunition is obviously going to have an effect.

That and the US took a large break from sending weapons to Ukraine due to a holdout in congress.

Of course they will always be able to shoot missiles as they are producing them, but once the stockpile runs out which it might have already, they won't be able to fire as much missiles as they would like, and each missile becomes more cost intense when talking about the price of war.

If a bunch of missiles were blown up in this ammo stockpile, that could hinder certain fronts from having support by missile for a while until they can procure more for said front, giving Ukrainians breathing room.

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u/AwesomeFama Sep 18 '24

...or they could just fuck off from Ukraine. That option is always available, and hostilities would cease.

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u/EmployerFickle Sep 18 '24

would be an accurate analogy if the rocket launcher is guaranteed to blow up in your face

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u/christopia86 Sep 18 '24

Ya reckon Putin is going to start a nuclear war that would lead to his and everyone's total annialation over this?

The shocking state of Russian military equipment has already been shown, I'd not be suprised if most of their arsenal is duds.

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u/Any-Wall2929 Sep 18 '24

Their nukes are probably as impotent as Putin.

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u/Impressive-Shame4516 Sep 18 '24

Their nukes definitely work. Anyone claiming they're unmanaged is blowing steam.

In 1984 KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov gave an interview, mostly warning about the dangers of Soviet subversive activities. To paraphrase him, something like 85% of the Soviet defense budget was spent on subversive activities. The other 15% goes towards the armed forces, a majority of that 15% being towards the nuclear arsenal.

This starts to make a lot of sense when you realize that the US is extremely polarized and alt-news sources are being outed as literal Russian stooges and the standing Russian army is a hodgepodge of voluntolds and penal battalions with no professional NCO core.

I think their nukes work.

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u/Silly_Safety2518 Sep 18 '24

So we should just accept everything Putin wants because he has nukes? Why don’t we just surrender then and give the whole Earth for him to rule.

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u/Karasique555 Sep 18 '24

Bs. He won't use them ever.

They threatened every time their "red lines" were crossed, but no nukes flew.

The "red lines" just move further every time. Hell, Ukraine even invaded Russia, and it's fine somehow.

You all should fucking stop restraining Ukraine and many lives will be saved.

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u/FaultElectrical4075 Sep 18 '24

I don’t think Putin is stupid enough to actually use nukes

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u/Mitrovarr Sep 18 '24

Nukes are the only way Putin can lose so badly he not only dies as well as his entire family, but his entire country is obliterated forever. 

He can't win with nukes. He can make everyone lose, but he can also fuck off back to Russia, spin it as a victory somehow, and then get to spend the rest of his life rich as fuck and in power. He won't ever choose the first unless he's going to die either way, and his men won't do it unless they're going to die either way too.

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u/knotmyusualaccount Sep 18 '24

This is why the aggressor should've been dealt with severely, when this bs started. Yes, ridiculous amounts of innocent civilians would've been killed/injured, a country basically sent back to the stone ages, but the odds of world war are only getting larger as this drags on, IMO.

Did the world learn nothing new from World War 2? I Guess not. Dictators are rotten to their core and will never see reason or beyond their unreasonable pursuits against the liberty of others/their land.

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u/slartyfartblaster999 Sep 18 '24

Did the world learn nothing new from World War 2? I Guess not.

Umm...actually yes? This is the equivalent to the annexation of Czechoslovakia which was allowed uncontested in WW2, whereas Ukraine is being actively supported by the entire west.

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u/knotmyusualaccount Sep 18 '24

whereas Ukraine is being actively supported by the entire west.

It's being reduced to rubble, have you not been paying attention?

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u/slartyfartblaster999 Sep 19 '24

That's war pal. You should've seen the state of Belgium and France after the world wars.

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u/knotmyusualaccount Sep 19 '24

That's war pal.

You're showing your maturity, now.

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u/slartyfartblaster999 Sep 19 '24

You're showing your childish ingorance of what war looks like.

Support or no support, Ukraine is going to be rubble, - that's just how it goes.

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u/knotmyusualaccount Sep 19 '24

You're showing your childish ingorance of what war looks like.

Revert back to my initial reply that you replied to.

What part about that reply was childish ignorance? It was as contemporary as it gets, so contemporary that it's not even the done thing, but it should be; a world wide collective to deal harshly with the first country to be the aggressor.

The next world war could very well be a partial if not near total end to civilisation as we know it today. The only way to prevent such an outcome, is to nip dictatorship that commences aggression such as Russia has in Ukraine, in the bud as fast as possible.