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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Attack on Pavlograd. 30.04.2023
2023-05-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] A local apocalypse at the Pavlograd railway junction after a massive missile attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces. Secondary detonations were noted. More videos and photos here https://t.me/boris_rozhin/84339

Perhaps they covered the train with equipment and ammunition. In any case, great job. This needs more and more. Today, it is possible to continue with launches of air and sea-based cruise missiles.

From regnum.ru
Rogov spoke about airstrikes on the infrastructure and warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pavlograd

Rogov: Infrastructure and warehouses that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have accumulated for the counteroffensive have been destroyed in Pavlograd

In Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian Armed Forces launched massive strikes on the railway infrastructure and warehouses, which the Kyiv militants used to prepare a counteroffensive. The successful operation was announced on the Telegram channel by the chairman of the Zaporozhye movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

The social worker wrote that local residents reported “mass arrivals” on the evening of April 30.

“There are mass arrivals in Pavlograd through the railway infrastructure and warehouses with ammunition and fuel, which the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have accumulated for the counteroffensive,” Vladimir Rogov added.

The city announced an air alert.

As REGNUM reported , the armada of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivers a preemptive strike on Ukraine on the night of April 30 before the counteroffensive of the Kiev army. At least 16 strategic bombers from different air bases have taken to the skies and are flying towards Ukraine.

Posted by:badanov

#10  1,800 tons of rocket fuel going off.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-01 20:12  

#9  Play it again. SAM? Both sides lying? I'm shocked!
Posted by: Maggie Untervehr2452   2023-05-01 20:09  

#8  Except that there are many videos of Russian cruise crashing into high rise apartments and taking out only a group of apartments. Liars lie.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-01 12:00  

#7  To top it off, the Russians are passing off the cruise missile attack on a high rise apartment block in Uman killing 23, including 6 children, was really a Ukrainian attack on occupied Donbass.

Ukrainian SAM gunners in the past have been known to fire their missiles low enough they hit nearby buildings.

Russians say were a Russian cruise missile hit the high rise, it would have been leveled.
Posted by: badanov   2023-05-01 11:53  

#6  Solid fuel means you can pop them off on a whim without a lot of setup activity.

Those missiles would have been disassembled and the guidance and electronics removed. You don't think the START treaties would have left them in flyable condition? And nearly 40 year old solid propellant, stored in a non-temperature controlled environment, is asking for trouble.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-01 11:28  

#5  Russian socialist media showed videos of a wrecked train.

Was it this train that was blown up in Bryansk?

To top it off, the Russians are passing off the cruise missile attack on a high rise apartment block in Uman killing 23, including 6 children, was really a Ukrainian attack on occupied Donbass.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-01 11:19  

#4  A Minotaur IV, that is, a re-purposed Peacekeeper ICBM (MX) solid fuel rocket is being launched from Vandenberg in a few weeks.

With a NRO payload.

So, they don't just have to be left laying around because there's no money to break them down.

There was a time when you could see a nice satellite picture of a couple dozen Titan first stages laid out at AMARC. They've been dismantled.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-05-01 09:37  

#3  Vial Le Wiki:
SS-24: NATO reporting name Scalpel was a cold-launched, three-stage, solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile ... It came in silo- and rail-based variants, and was armed with 10 MIRV warheads of 550 kt yield. All missiles were decommissioned by 2005 in accordance with the START II.

tl;dr: Cold War era first-strike multiple-warhead ICBM

Apparently, *all* means some. The START II agreement was only kinda sorta implemented. A bit like Minsk II, eh? Perhaps it is the Roman numerals.

Solid fuel means you can pop them off on a whim without a lot of setup activity. MIRV means Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle aka "warheads". I can see why the Russians might want to take 38 of those off the board. "Bah, old Soviet era junk!", you say. Like that old soviet recon drone the Ukrainians repurposed into a cruise missile?
Posted by: SteveS   2023-05-01 09:21  

#2  Russian socialist media showed videos of a wrecked train.
Posted by: badanov   2023-05-01 08:24  

#1  Deactivated ICBM storage site hit. Large explosions and fire from stored solid rocket fuel. A propaganda attack since the Russians knew those old ICBMs were stored there for more than 30 years.

Ukrainian sources say it was 38 old ballistic missiles (SS-24) with 1,800 tons of rocket fuel. They were stored at the Pavlohrad Chemical Plant. They were not decommissioned due to lack of funds. (This was the case until 2019)
Posted by: Enver Slager8035   2023-05-01 00:29  

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