18 people dead or missing after massive blast at Tennessee military explosive plant, officials say | CNN
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Eighteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said — a “mass detonation” so significant that it rattled homes miles away.
  • tal@olio.cafeOPEnglish
    71·
    4 days ago

    While this is an explosives manufacturing plant in the US that just exploded — I saw it on !news@lemmy.world — I’m cross-posting it here as apparently they produced filler for 155 mm shells. If it turns out that this is sabotage from Russian intelligence, as with the explosions in Czechia some time back, this will obviously have some substantial implications for the Ukraine situation.

    EDIT: https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges

    Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.

  • socialsecurity@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Russia conducting sabotage operations in the us heartland while us security apparatus is too busy spying on the taxpyers