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Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:47 pm to cypher
The CEO of Umatex Group, Russia’s only carbon fiber manufacturer and a key supplier of raw materials for the production of Shahed/Geran drones, was found shot dead in the Moscow region.
The death of the Russian top manager was reported by the Russian channel Astra.
The body of the Russian company’s CEO, Alexandr Tyunin, was found on the roadside near a village near Moscow, along with a gun and a suicide note.
“I did it myself, I’m tired of fighting depression for 5 years, it’s getting worse, I have no strength,” Tyunin’s note reads.
Oh well,...anyway. found an interesting article on Umatex and the Alabuga plant where they make shaheds,
Conclusion:
The link between the Alabuga-Fibre plant and the Air Liquide gas facility is not merely cooperative; it is a structural dependency. Carbon fibre production is impossible without a continuous flow of high-purity oxygen and nitrogen, making Air Liquide the unseen enabler of UMATEX’s operations. This creates a striking paradox: a project presented as a symbol of Russia’s technological sovereignty is in reality bound to vulnerable infrastructure.
This interdependence reveals the weakest link in the chain of advanced material production. A disruption at Air Liquide would not only halt carbon fibre output but also ripple across the Alabuga SEZ, affecting other residents, including producers of composite resins and polymers, such as epoxy suppliers, a key component in the production of composite materials. What appears on the surface as an industrial success story is in fact a fragile system, in which one node sustains multiple strategic sectors.
Alabuga plant – No Chain is stronger than its weakest link - August 29, 2025
The death of the Russian top manager was reported by the Russian channel Astra.
The body of the Russian company’s CEO, Alexandr Tyunin, was found on the roadside near a village near Moscow, along with a gun and a suicide note.
“I did it myself, I’m tired of fighting depression for 5 years, it’s getting worse, I have no strength,” Tyunin’s note reads.
Oh well,...anyway. found an interesting article on Umatex and the Alabuga plant where they make shaheds,
Conclusion:
The link between the Alabuga-Fibre plant and the Air Liquide gas facility is not merely cooperative; it is a structural dependency. Carbon fibre production is impossible without a continuous flow of high-purity oxygen and nitrogen, making Air Liquide the unseen enabler of UMATEX’s operations. This creates a striking paradox: a project presented as a symbol of Russia’s technological sovereignty is in reality bound to vulnerable infrastructure.
This interdependence reveals the weakest link in the chain of advanced material production. A disruption at Air Liquide would not only halt carbon fibre output but also ripple across the Alabuga SEZ, affecting other residents, including producers of composite resins and polymers, such as epoxy suppliers, a key component in the production of composite materials. What appears on the surface as an industrial success story is in fact a fragile system, in which one node sustains multiple strategic sectors.
Alabuga plant – No Chain is stronger than its weakest link - August 29, 2025
Posted on 9/20/25 at 5:12 pm to cypher
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Air Liquide gas facility
ASU cryo unit to get that purity. The unit probably has an argon arm as well to get all three major cryo gases, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Argon.
French company since 1902
LOX (Liquid oxygen) would make a very nice KABOOM
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 9/20/25 at 7:38 pm to CitizenK
Posted on 9/20/25 at 7:39 pm to CitizenK
liquid oxygen by itself ....no kaboom unless you are talking about simple overpressure due to warming
Posted on 9/20/25 at 7:45 pm to Trevaylin
Explosive charge will ignite it
Posted on 9/20/25 at 7:46 pm to John Barron
I don't think that Ukraine has any actual operating refineries. He means power plants? They did that already
Posted on 9/20/25 at 8:45 pm to CitizenK
An old friend that I met at EDC and lives in Saint Petersburg just informed me that Zelensky is going to be feeling very Alone shortly....
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:57 pm to CitizenK
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Chinese and there is the strong possibility that the US was able to track data transmission back to the actual computers receiving them. Opts were bad for Biden but perhaps this was a goldmine of intel for the US. We can see all of those areas on Google Maps Satellite view or Google Earth
That is supposedly what happened... the military and intel communities told Biden "they can't see anything that they and everybody else can't already see from satellites... they've always known where our silos and bases are located, they can't see inside the silos because they're closed. But, if we wait to shoot it down we can track the transmission and get something out of it, and apparently they were able to get into something from that and retrieve data. Also, that was done by some mid-level commander who just wanted to "mess with out heads," and he's probably no longer with us.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:58 pm to John Barron
quote:
Oliver Stone Destroys Mainstream Media Narrative
Oliver Stone lost his marbles back around 1989
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:14 pm to LSURussian
quote:
How many minutes of a fully armed military jet from a hostile country intruding in another country’s air space is needed for it to be considered not “absolutely nothing”??
I would say it happens more than you think.
Real life isn’t Iron Eagle 2.
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:33 pm to Lee B
Reuters (via YahooNews): UK fighter jets begin NATO air defence mission over Poland
The Independent (via Yahoo News): Russian fighter jet incursions in Estonia and drones in Poland: How the war in Ukraine is already a European conflict
Express.co.uk: Russia's 'greyzone' invasion plan to start WW3 before Christmas revealed by defector
EXCLUSIVE: The warning from a top Russian general has triggered urgent discussions in the UK and US about the risk of a deniable strike aimed at fracturing NATO.
Moscow is preparing a "greyzone" attack on Poland before Christmas, a senior Russian military official has revealed. The warning from a top Russian general has triggered urgent discussions in the UK and US about the risk of a deniable strike aimed at fracturing NATO.
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He claims the Kremlin is planning a non-nuclear strike on Polish territory – a limited but deliberate act designed to test NATO’s response and trigger political destabilisation in Europe.
The Independent (via Yahoo News): Russian fighter jet incursions in Estonia and drones in Poland: How the war in Ukraine is already a European conflict
Express.co.uk: Russia's 'greyzone' invasion plan to start WW3 before Christmas revealed by defector
EXCLUSIVE: The warning from a top Russian general has triggered urgent discussions in the UK and US about the risk of a deniable strike aimed at fracturing NATO.
Moscow is preparing a "greyzone" attack on Poland before Christmas, a senior Russian military official has revealed. The warning from a top Russian general has triggered urgent discussions in the UK and US about the risk of a deniable strike aimed at fracturing NATO.
...
He claims the Kremlin is planning a non-nuclear strike on Polish territory – a limited but deliberate act designed to test NATO’s response and trigger political destabilisation in Europe.
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 9/21/25 at 3:48 am to CitizenK
quote:
Explosive charge will ignite it
Or Russians smoking nearby. There were 0 explosive charges used on apollo 1.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 6:59 am to cypher
Posted on 9/21/25 at 8:36 am to cypher
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:26 am to John Barron
quote:
An old friend that I met at EDC and lives in Saint Petersburg
That sounds like it might be some ghey furry thing.
Why are some Russian milbloggers now complaining that the announced advances by Russia are fake news and Russian generals are reporting these fake advances to Putin as fact?
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:48 am to John Barron
Posted on 9/21/25 at 9:59 am to John Barron
Posted on 9/21/25 at 10:05 am to John Barron
quote:
"The Russian army is significantly better now, more lethal, than they were when they started"
I submit to you that so are the Ukrainian forces. They are better than they were in Feb of 22.
Evidence of this can be shown by how well they are stymying Russian advances and how much havoc they are wrecking deep inside Russia.
Posted on 9/21/25 at 10:23 am to doubleb
Russia's 'good-for-nothing' general reportedly dismissed after Ukraine blunders
September 21, 2025 2:23 pm
Russian Colonel General Alexander Lapin has been dismissed from military service, Russian pro-government media outlet RBC reported on Sept. 21, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The general has long been associated with battlefield setbacks since 2022.
Lapin commanded Russia's Central Military District during Ukraine's September 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, where Russian defenses collapsed and multiple cities were retaken.
This earned him public criticism from Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov as "a good-for-nothing" general.
In 2024, Lapin oversaw Russia's defenses in Kursk Oblast, where Ukraine launched an unprecedented cross-border incursion in 2024, seizing 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) in the first months.
The Wall Street Journal later reported that gaps in Russian defenses under Lapin let Ukraine advance.
Nine months later, Moscow launched a counteroffensive supported by 12,000 North Korean troops, eventually retaking most of the territory but at a cost of 80,000 soldiers killed or wounded.
Lapin, born in Kazan in 1964, rose through Russia's military ranks after graduating from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.
In 2017, he served as chief of staff of Russian forces in Syria and later commanded the Central Military District and multiple Russian formations in Ukraine.
Russian pro-government media outlet Tatar-inform reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that Lapin will now serve as an assistant to Tatarstan's head, Rustam Minnikhanov.
The Kyiv Independent
September 21, 2025 2:23 pm
Russian Colonel General Alexander Lapin has been dismissed from military service, Russian pro-government media outlet RBC reported on Sept. 21, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The general has long been associated with battlefield setbacks since 2022.
Lapin commanded Russia's Central Military District during Ukraine's September 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, where Russian defenses collapsed and multiple cities were retaken.
This earned him public criticism from Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov as "a good-for-nothing" general.
In 2024, Lapin oversaw Russia's defenses in Kursk Oblast, where Ukraine launched an unprecedented cross-border incursion in 2024, seizing 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) in the first months.
The Wall Street Journal later reported that gaps in Russian defenses under Lapin let Ukraine advance.
Nine months later, Moscow launched a counteroffensive supported by 12,000 North Korean troops, eventually retaking most of the territory but at a cost of 80,000 soldiers killed or wounded.
Lapin, born in Kazan in 1964, rose through Russia's military ranks after graduating from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.
In 2017, he served as chief of staff of Russian forces in Syria and later commanded the Central Military District and multiple Russian formations in Ukraine.
Russian pro-government media outlet Tatar-inform reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that Lapin will now serve as an assistant to Tatarstan's head, Rustam Minnikhanov.
The Kyiv Independent
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