A powerful explosion thundered at the "Araz" plant of the Ministry of Defense Industry of Azerbaijan in the city of Shirvan in the warehouse area. In the city, a blast wave smashed windows in buildings. Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations evacuate residents living near the enterprise. All roads within a radius of two kilometers are blocked. To the city hospital.
At the enterprise "Ukroboronservis" Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine an explosion occurred during the disposal of unusable ammunition - cartridges of 23 mm caliber. As a result of the explosion, the facade of the premises of the enterprise was damaged.
There were several explosions at an army ammunition depot in Sri Lanka at a military base near the city of Salava, located 36 kilometers east of the country's capital, Colombo. At least one person died, 47 required medical assistance. According to media reports, thousands of evacuees were forced to leave home, fearing for their lives. Most of the hospitalized after receiving medical care were discharged from the hospital.
In an ammunition depot in the Indian state of Maharashtra an explosion thundered and a major fire occurred. According to various sources, up to 17 people were killed, another 19 were injured.
In the evening, an explosion occurred at the Arsenal military factory in the town of Miglizh, 250 kilometers east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The incident killed a 52-year-old man.
At the factory for the production of weapons in Bulgaria, an explosion thundered. According to the Interior Ministry, the incident occurred during repair work in one of the buildings of the largest weapons manufacturing plant in the country Arsenal in the city of Kazanlak. The explosion provoked a fire, which was soon localized. As a result of the accident killed two workers.
In the Stanichno-Lugansk district of the Luhansk region, in the village of Gayevka, an unauthorized explosion occurred at an ammunition depot of 92 separate mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, the soldier was killed.
2015
A fire followed by detonation of shells broke out in an ammunition depot in the city of Svatovo, Lugansk region, controlled by Kiev. The explosions were heard all night, and only on October 30 firefighters were able to start extinguishing the fire. By evening, the Lugansk military-civil administration reported the elimination of fire and the cessation of explosions. As a result of the emergency, four people died and 16 were injured. According to the estimates of the military prosecutor's office, the negligence of officials became the cause of a major fire.
An explosion thundered on the territory of an army warehouse in Algeria. The incident occurred in the province of Ain-Defla in the north of the country. Four people died, dozens were injured.
In the province of Diyarbakir in the south-east of Turkey, an ammunition depot belonging to the special forces of the Turkish Security Directorate exploded. After the explosion there was a strong fire. No information about the victims.
There was an explosion at a US military base in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. As a result of the fire following the explosion, a single-storey warehouse with an area of 900 square meters burnt out. The warehouse belonged to the supply base of the American military facility. There is no information about the victims.
Several explosions thundered on the territory of a military plant in central Bulgaria on the territory of VMZ ‑ Sopot near the settlement of Iganovo. The explosions were heard in the area of a non-working warehouse. According to the police, there are no injuries.
This is the second incident on the plant’s territory in a month - an explosion also thundered at the ammunition plant on March 20. According to media reports, then about two thousand unguided rocket shells exploded at the Vyksa-Sopot warehouse, no one was injured as a result of the incident.
As a result of the explosions that struck the ammunition depot in the city of Aden in the south of Yemen, according to the country's Ministry of Health, at least nine people were killed.
2014
A powerful explosion thundered at the military factory of the Bulgarian city Kostenets. The incident occurred in the morning at the plant "TEREM - Tsar Samuil", which is engaged in the disposal of ammunition. Ten people were injured.
The explosion took place in the armory of the army in the city of Hengyang in the province of Hunan in the center of China. As a result of the explosion, 17 soldiers died. The explosion thundered at the moment when the soldiers stored weapons. None of the civilian population was hurt.
The fire occurred in warehouses with tanks in the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. According to UNIAN, two tanks with full ammunition, including with shells, caught fire in the garage. After the fire in the warehouse was extinguished, the explosions of the shells continued, in connection with which the evacuation of the residents of the military camp began. The causes of the incident and the victims were not reported.
An explosion occurred at an ammunition depot owned by the Indonesian naval special forces Kopaska and located in the jakarta port of Tanjung-Priok. At least 25 Indonesian navy sailors were injured.
The explosion occurred at an armory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to local authorities, due to a lightning strike, a fire broke out in the warehouse in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, and then an explosion occurred. 20 people died, 50 were injured. Among the dead are women and children.
The material is based on information from RIA News and public sources.
TASS-FILE. On November 17, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the A321 crash over Sinai, where more than 220 people died, is a terrorist attack . According to him, traces of foreign-made explosive were found on the wreckage of the aircraft and things.
Less than two weeks after the events in Egypt, terrorists made a series of attacks in Paris . 129 people died, over 350 were injured. This is the second largest terrorist attack in Europe after Madrid, when 190 people died in explosions at railway stations in 2004.
Below are the 10 largest in terms of the number of victims of terrorist attacks in the world, with the exception of attacks that occurred in countries where at that time there was a military conflict. In eight cases, radical Islamist groups staged the attacks.
September 11 attacks in the United States. 2996 dead
On September 11, 2001, suicide bombers from the Al Qaeda terrorist organization seized passenger planes in the US and crashed into the two towers of the World Trade Center (New York) and the Pentagon building - the headquarters of the US Department of Defense (Arlington Virginia, pieces). The fourth captured airliner crashed near Shanksville (pc. Pennsylvania). As a result of this world's largest series of terrorist attacks, 2 thousand 996 people died, over 6 thousand people were injured. The terrorist attack was organized by Al-Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
Beslan. Russia. 335 dead
On September 1, 2004, in Beslan (North Ossetia-Alania), militants led by Ruslan Khuchbarov ("Rasul") captured more than 1 thousand 100 pupils of school number 1, their relatives and teachers. On September 2, after negotiations with the ex-president of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, gangsters released 25 women and children. On September 3, the school began shooting and explosions, which forced the assault to begin. Most of the hostages were released, 335 people died. Among the dead were 186 children, 17 teachers and school staff, 10 employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia, two employees of the Emergencies Ministry. The militants were destroyed, only one survived - Nurpashi Kulayev (in 2006 he was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment because of the moratorium on executions). Responsibility for the terrorist attack was claimed by the international terrorist Shamil Basayev (liquidated in 2006).
Boeing 747 Air India. 329 dead
On June 23, 1985, a passenger plane, a Boeing 747, operated by Air India, following flight AI182 on the route Montreal (Canada) - London - Delhi, crashed in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland. The cause of the disaster was the bombing of the Indian extremists-Sikhs. All 329 people aboard were killed in the crash (307 passengers and 22 crew members). A Canadian citizen Inderjeet Singh Reyat was convicted on charges of participating in the preparation of a terrorist attack in 2003 for 5 years in prison. Prior to that, he served a 10-year prison sentence for preparing an explosion at Narita Airport (Japan) that occurred on the same day as the VT-EFO disaster. Later, Reyat was accused of giving false testimony and in 2011 was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Attack Boko-Haram in Nigeria. More than 300 dead
On May 5-6, 2014, over 300 residents were killed by militants as a result of a night attack on the city of Gambor, the state of Borno. The survivors fled to neighboring Cameroon. Most of the city was destroyed.
The terrorist attack over Lockerbie. 270 dead
On December 21, 1988, the Pan Am passenger plane Boeing 747 (USA), which operated regular flight 103 on the route Frankfurt am Main - London - New York - Detroit, collapsed in the air over Lockerbie (Scotland). On board, a bomb exploded in the baggage. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members who were onboard were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground. In 1991, two Libyan citizens were accused of bombing. In 1999, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to transfer both suspects to a Dutch court. One of them, Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, on January 31, 2001, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 2009 due to a fatal illness diagnosed in him, died in 2012). In 2003, the Libyan authorities acknowledged responsibility for the attack and paid compensation in the total amount of $ 2.7 billion - $ 10 million for each dead person.
The attacks in Bombay. India. 257 dead
On March 12, 1993, in the crowded places of Bombay (now Mumbai), 13 explosive devices built into cars were simultaneously launched. The victims of the terrorist attack were 257 people, more than 700 were injured. The investigation established that the organizers of the bombings were Islamic terrorists. The attack was a response to the clashes between Muslims and Hindus in the city. One of the organizers, Jakub Memon, was sentenced to death, which was carried out on July 30, 2015. Two of his accomplices are wanted.
Aircraft A321 "Kogalymavia". 224 dead
On October 31, 2015, the Airbus A321-231 passenger aircraft (registration number EI-ETJ) of the Russian airline Metrojet (Kogalymavia), en route 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg, crashed 100 km from El-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. On board were 224 people - 217 passengers and seven crew members, they all died.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised that the perpetrators and those involved in the terrorist attack with the plane will be found and punished . “We have to do it without a statute of limitations, to know them all by name. We will look for them everywhere, wherever they hide. We will find them anywhere in the world and punish them,” Putin assured.
Undermining US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 224 dead
On August 7, 1998, in Nairobi (the capital of Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (the former capital of Tanzania), two terrorist attacks simultaneously took place, the purpose of which were the US embassies in these countries. Near the embassies parked trucks, filled with explosives, exploded. Total killed 224 people, including 12 US citizens, the rest - the locals. The organizer of the explosions was the Al-Qaida group.
The attacks in Mumbai. India. 209 dead
On July 11, 2006, Islamic terrorists set off explosive devices hidden in a pressure cooker, laid into the cars of seven suburban trains in the suburbs of Mumbai (Khar Road, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Mahim, Borivli, Matunga stations). "and" Mira Road "). The attack occurred during the evening rush hour. 209 people died, more than 700 were injured. At the end of the investigation of the crime, the court sentenced 12 people to various prison terms, 5 of them were sentenced to death.
Bali attack. Indonesia. 202 dead
On October 12, 2002, a suicide attack and a car bomb exploded near nightclubs in the resort city of Kuta (Bali Island) killed 202 people, of whom 164 were foreign tourists. 209 people were injured. In the case of involvement in the terrorist attack were arrested about 30 people. In 2003, a Indonesian court recognized the organizers of the attack as a number of members of Jamaa Islamia. In 2008, three of them - Abdul Aziz, also known as Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasim and Ali (Muklas) Gurfon - were shot by court sentence. Muklas's brother Ali Imron was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The “Al-Qaeda” mentioned in the material is included in the Unified Federal List of organizations recognized as terrorist in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. Their activity on the territory of the Russian Federation is prohibited.
The most powerful explosions in human history
On October 30, 1961, the most powerful bomb in the world was tested — the thermonuclear Tsar Bomb, later called Kuz'kina Mother, was dropped on the Sukhoy Nosy testing ground. Today we remember this and other explosions of tremendous destructive power.
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Humanity spends a lot of money and huge efforts to create weapons that are as effective as possible in destroying their own kind. And, as science and history show, it succeeds. About what happens to our planet, if nuclear war suddenly breaks out on Earth, quite a few films have been shot and more than a dozen books have been written. But the most terrible is still a dry description of the conducted tests of weapons of mass destruction, reports formulated by the meager clerical military language.
A shell of incredible power was developed under the leadership of Kurchatov himself. As a result of seven years of work, the most powerful explosive device in the entire history of mankind was created. According to various sources, the bomb had from 57 to 58.6 megatons of TNT equivalent. For comparison - the explosion of the atomic bomb "Fat Man", dropped on Nagasaki, was equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT. How many misfortunes she has done, many people know.
"Tsar Bomb" served as a demonstration of the strength of the USSR to the Western community
The explosion resulted in a fireball with a radius of about 4.6 kilometers. Light radiation was so powerful that it could cause third-degree burns at a distance of about 100 kilometers from the site of the explosion. The seismic wave resulting from the test has circled the globe three times. The nuclear mushroom rose to a height of 67 kilometers, and the diameter of its “cap” was 95 kilometers.
Until 2007, the American high-explosive air bomb, which the US military affectionately called Mother Of All Bombs, was considered the largest non-nuclear bomb in the world. The length of the projectile is more than 9 meters, its weight - 9.5 tons. Moreover, most of this weight falls on the explosive. The strength of the explosion - 11 tons in TNT equivalent. That is, two "Mom" is enough to blow the average metropolis into dust. However, it is pleasing that so far bombs of this type have not been used in the course of military operations. But one of the "Mom" just in case was sent to Iraq. Apparently, in the hope that peacekeepers cannot do without weighty arguments.
The Mother of All Bombs was the most powerful non-nuclear ammunition until the Pope of All Bombs appeared.
According to the official description of the ammunition, "the MOAB explosion force is enough to destroy tanks and people within a few hundred meters on the surface and demoralize the troops in the neighborhood that survived the explosion."
This is our answer to the Americans - the development of a high-power aviation vacuum bomb, unofficially called the “Pope of All Bombs”. The ammunition was created in 2007 and now it is this bomb that is considered the most powerful non-nuclear projectile in the world.
The bomb testing reports say that the Pap's area of destruction is so large that it reduces the cost of producing ammunition by reducing the accuracy requirements. Indeed, what is the aim hit, if it carries everything around within a radius of 200 meters. And even at a distance of more than two kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, a person will knock down a shock wave. After all, the power of the "Pope" is four times greater than the "Mom" - the force of the explosion of a vacuum bomb is 44 tons in TNT equivalent. As a separate achievement, testers argue that the projectile is environmentally friendly. “The results of the tests of the created aircraft munitions showed that it is comparable in its effectiveness and capabilities with a nuclear munition, at the same time, I want to emphasize this, the effect of this munition does not pollute the environment at all compared to a nuclear munition,” the report said and about. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia Alexander Rukshin.
"Daddy of all bombs" is about four times more powerful than "Mom"
The names of these two Japanese cities have long become synonymous with large-scale disaster. The US military actually tested atomic bombs on humans, dropping projectiles on Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Most of the victims of the explosions were not at all military, but civilian. Children, women, old people - their bodies instantly turned into coal. There were only silhouettes on the walls - this is how the light emitted. Flying nearby birds burned in the air.
"Mushrooms" of nuclear explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The number of victims could not be accurately determined until now: many died not immediately, but later, as a result of developed radiation sickness. The “kid” with an approximate capacity of 13 to 18 kilotons of TNT dropped on Hiroshima killed between 90 and 166 thousand people. In Nagasaki "Fat Man" with a capacity of 21 kilotons of TNT cut short the lives of 60 to 90 thousand people.
"Fat Man" and "Kid" are exhibited in the museum - as a reminder of the destructive power of nuclear weapons
This was the first and so far the only case in which the force of a nuclear weapon was used during military operations.
The Podkamennaya Tunguska River was uninteresting to anyone until June 17, 1908. On this day, at about seven o'clock in the morning, a huge fireball swept over the territory of the Yenisei basin and exploded over the taiga near Tunguska. Now everyone knows about this river, and versions of what has exploded over the taiga have since been published for every taste: from alien invasion to the manifestation of the power of angry gods. However, the main and common cause of the explosion is still a meteorite fall.
The explosion was of such strength that trees covered over an area of more than two thousand square kilometers. In the houses, located hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, windows were broken. A few days after the explosion in the territory from the Atlantic to central Siberia, people saw the sky and clouds glow.
Scientists have calculated the approximate power of the explosion - from 40 to 50 megatons in TNT equivalent. That is, comparable to the power of the "Tsar Bomb", the most destructive man-made bomb. It remains only to be glad that the Tungussky meteorite fell in remote taiga, far from villages and villages.
