PJ Diaz
Well-Known Member
Thank you. That removes my constraint to address your posts, which I was not going to do behind your back. In your face is fair game.
Fwiw I found myself agreeing with what you posted here yesterday in re the ethics of civilians and war.
The flash I saw suggests a spherical fireball just entering the frame from above. Even more speculative, the apparent softness of the shock wave suggests fuel-air. I don’t know. I imagine more data will be published in time.
In this video, they show a clip of a boat below the deck at the moment of explosion:A large missile could have also penetrated the bridge deck and detonated beneath it. This logical, since it would confine the blast between the water and the deck, heaving it upward. A slight delay would be all it would take, and it would do more damage going off under a low span close to the water, as it did. I've seen reliable reports it was a missile, but a truck bomb could have done it too, we await more conclusive evidence of either. But a missile going off under the span should not have caught the train cars on fire, they would have been protected by the inner roadway, which appeared to have no damage underneath. I'm still favoring the Truck hypotheses, but we will see.
I also read this, which may or may not be true, but implies a boat:
"The Russian agency outlined that authorities believe the 22-ton explosive was first moved by sea out of the Ukrainian port city of Odesa in August before traveling through multiple countries including Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia."
BTW, @cannabineer I'd be willing to bet that you and I agree on more topics that you'd expect.