re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Yo where da Cajun Navy at? There is something in the constitution that grants private citizens to capture foreign ships. Any Russian shrimp boats or fishing boats in the gulf? The time is now the weather is great.

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Thermobaric.

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I haven’t seen a thermobaric explosion, so I wouldn’t know what it looks like. The Kyiv blast from earlier in the night may also have been partial distorted by the fog in the city which helped to cast the light from the explosion over a farther distance, so it may not have been as big as it looked.

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Did Russia use a nuclear bomb tonight? Early indications says yes they did.

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Dude, frick off on that. We’d know if a nuclear explosion took place. This is a serious matter and don’t say shite like that unless you’re sure.

We disagree a lot but I'm with you here. We'd know right away.

And if they do use a nuke? I'm putting my family in the car and driving the frick away from all major cities.

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We disagree a lot but I'm with you here. We'd know right away.

And if they do use a nuke? I'm putting my family in the car and driving the frick away from all major cities.

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Yep. My bag is packed.. granted it’s from a recent trip, but I see no reason to unpack it just in case. Just need to load up the firearms, some more additional clothes, and my food, and I’m going to the mountains if a nuke goes off.

If it's one or two, I'm too far away from anything important to be in much danger. If it's a major exchange what's left of the world won't be worth living in.

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Everytime you see an explosion on Twitter just say “thermobaric” and you’ll get to feel like you know what you’re talking about.

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It’s bizarre how that word, that I’ve never seen before (much time reading Stratfor) now is popping up everywhere.

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Just look it up on YouTube, a nonnuclear explosion that sucks the oxygen out of everything within in its blast radius.

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Fuel air munitions (FAEs) are a sub-set of thermobaric munitions. They work similarly to a dust initiation charge or a grain silo explosion.

They initially use a small high velocity explosive charge to disperse the fuel which can be a number of things often metal compounds. Then the secondary explosion is triggered burning all the fuel at a very high rate. So you have a positive pressure pulse then a negative pressure pulse and the pressure pulses last a LOT longer than a standard HE explosion and produce much more heat.

They essentially enhance the 2nd and 3rd stages of a HE munition, both of those are the aerobic stages of the explosion. The second stage has a high-pressure pulse that produces a heaving effect for building and bunkers the third stage is a long-duration low-pressure pulse that has high heat output and is very effective against personnel.

The media has made a big deal of the way it "sucks the air" out of an area but this last in the millisecond range at least where it is deadly, in that short of a time dead is dead and it doesn't make any difference how you got there.

Visually telling them apart from conventional HE explosions can be difficult especially at night if you don't have a proper frame of reference to the large conventional bombs. They are more often but not always detonated above ground level and they generally have whiter smoke than conventional weapons but that depends on the type of fuel used and what debris is caught up in the cloud.

From someone on the grounds POV it is just a big fricking explosion. Sinister mainly because it is huge not because of any of the other characteristics.

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Please stop drinking

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I’ll tell you all that sober tomorrow if you wish.