Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
The EOD chap in the video I posted at #93 suggested that the fireworks in a contained space (eg an ISO container) could act as a detonator.
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The EOD chap in the video I posted at #93 suggested that the fireworks in a contained space (eg an ISO container) could act as a detonator.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
The biggest conventional munition is the Russian 'Father of All Bombs' (FOAB) which is equivalent to 44 Tons of TNT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs) which is about 1/45th of the Beirut blast.
Tigerjones
Bagpuss
Matt,
This article answers you question.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....st/beirut-explosion-ammonium-nitrate.amp.html
tqineil
Ubi fides ibi lux et robur
about 1/25th of that of Beirut I think?
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
I was working on the last Wikipedia estimate I read of 2kT. A recent check of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#2001–present) has revised it down to 1-1.5kT so yes, 1/22 - 1/34.
Whatever the ratio,you don't get a conventional bang that big off an aircraft, even if the aircraft is a 'Buff' or a Bear.
Space is the Place
pfm Member
So the blast was the equivalent of 1155 tons of TNT? what's a modern nuclear weapon 100,000 tons?
And we've got ten's of thousands of them, mental
And we've got ten's of thousands of them, mental
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
And none have been used in anger for 75 years. That’s not a bad record.So the blast was the equivalent of 1155 tons of TNT? what's a modern nuclear weapon 100,000 tons?
And we've got ten's of thousands of them, mental
Edit: from Wikipedia...
From a high of 70,300 active weapons in 1986, as of 2019 there are approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world.
mykel
Perpetual Hack.
So the blast was the equivalent of 1155 tons of TNT? what's a modern nuclear weapon 100,000 tons?
And we've got ten's of thousands of them, mental
US big-boom-bombs range in yield from 0.3 Kt to 1.2 Mt
So 300 tons to 1.2 million tonnes.
The Tzar Bomba was about 57 Mt.
I.D.C.
pfm Member
Have been wanting Faslane on my door step for years to be shut down. There is no nuclear missiles stored near such a large population as is in Scotland in the world. Its dangers are subdued. One mistake there would wipe out 3/4 of the Scottish population. How that is acceptable is beyond me. If the majority of the local population understood what the real dangers were they would be terrified. Another good reason for independence SNP want them out of Scotland.
Space is the Place
pfm Member
Yes many of us here have had the fortune live in relative peace and prosperity and we've a lot to be thankful for, i don't take that for granted.
Watching the footage of the explosion (and that it occurred in Beirut) touched a nerve, because what i was witnessing was something deeply destructive and unnatural. I know it was an accident, but on a primal level it touched a nerve.
As a child i was acutely aware of the warning siren on the roof of the school! If it went off, we would have 4 minutes before everything and everyone was destroyed, not even enough time to say goodbye to my parents.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after the ending of the cold war.
35 years later, that there are missiles that would ensure mutual annihilation are still pointed at towns and cities around the world seems (is) insanity.
I don't think man can be trusted with such power (we've had a few near misses in the past), and as of 2020 my trust in the sanity of world leaders to do the right thing, has been somewhat eroded!
Now of course we've now got the added uncertainty of of AI making our decisions for us, Terminator anyone?
Unless nature gets us first!
...and with that cheery post, i wish you good morning...
russel
./_dazed_and_confused
There have been have a dozen “incidents” known publicly that I can think of that could have produced an explosion or an actual war, we are just here through dumb luck.
Edit:
seems to be more than a dozen.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Usually, but it depends on the target. One version of our WE177 was for anti-submarine operations, for example.
A industrial storage of fireworks alone is a pretty dangerous thing, If the storage had been further inland it could have been a different story.
The grain storage silo`s were certainly built up to saftey code, grain dust is pretty explosive too!
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
FFS,
FFS,
Oh god, I had no idea she was 'one of them' types. Another one on the list.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
I think the answer to her question is ‘yes’, but I’m not sure there’s much point trying to explain why to her.
Wow, is that real?FFS,
jackbarron
Chelsea, London
FFS,
What an idiot. The news stories presented in this country, especially by the BBC, assume the world begins in Rochdale and finishes in Preston. No wonder much of the rest of the world think the English are self-obsessed and stupid.
Jack
misterdog
Not the canine kind
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