What is this strange & spectacular russian shot ?
On the web, this shot is always named as "Semipalatinsk shot"
The photo, in color & good quality, probably indicates the 1965-1990's era.
But the explosion is not fully contained, have clearly seen the fireball (ie radioactive fallout)
What is this shot date, his yield ?, his goal ?
clearly a shot tower test (or near surface shot), not the first (1949) or third (1951) or fourth (1953) test.
This test look Very same as US/British 8-20 shot tower test, this shot is very probably :
- october 5 1954 (4 kt surface shot)
- october 30 1954 (10 Kt near surface shot resulting from misplaced bomb)
- august 2 1955 (12 kt tower shot)
- march 16 1956 (14 kt surface/tower shot)
- august 24 1956 (27 KT surface/tower shot)
bueschu Cherokee (3.8 mt)
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Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:13 pm
It's a non-nuclear explosion but I don't remember anymore what exactly they were bloing up. Probably the remnants of the Semipalatinsk-testsite (so the photo must have been taken around 1991).
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revolutionman Cherokee (3.8 mt)
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Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:38 am
gerboisebleue wrote:
A another discovery on the web
What is this strange & spectacular russian shot ?
On the web, this shot is always named as "Semipalatinsk shot"
The photo, in color & good quality, probably indicates the 1965-1990's era.
But the explosion is not fully contained, have clearly seen the fireball (ie radioactive fallout)
What is this shot date, his yield ?, his goal ?
Maybe someone could translate the narration in the first video? Yes at 55 seconds in that last video, the last test they show and the weapon effects in the film are amazing. There has to be more somewhere of the same clip but longer shots?
sonicbomb Forum Admin
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Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:16 am
The colour photo is definately non-nuclear. The monochrome image is Buffalo round 1.
Date: 07:30 UTC 27/09/1956
Type: Tower @30m
Yield: 15Kt
Thank for the correction. I thought the picture had seen it before ... but as it was on the STS web site I thought it might be the explosion of video, viewed from another angle!
And with the incorrect date of the test Chagan, and other images misidentified, we know that this page is unreliable!
bueschu Cherokee (3.8 mt)
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Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:23 pm
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Maybe someone could translate the narration in the first video?
It says: "...Those threats were more than theatrical thunder. In the autumn of 1961 the Soviets detonated over 40 atomic- and thermonuclear bombs. An unprecedented firework."
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:34 am
Thanks for the translation. If proof is on the detonations performed in the autumn of 1961, could be these:
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revolutionman Cherokee (3.8 mt)
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:19 am
bueschu wrote:
Quote:
Maybe someone could translate the narration in the first video?
It says: "...Those threats were more than theatrical thunder. In the autumn of 1961 the Soviets detonated over 40 atomic- and thermonuclear bombs. An unprecedented firework."
Thanks bueschu! Hopefully one day more Soviet film of the tests will come out.
Rus-51 Sunset (1 mt)
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Posted:
Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:03 pm
Quote:
What is this strange & spectacular russian shot ?
I think it is Omega-2 or Omega-3 but I'm not sure. It was liquidation of adits for nuclear tests.
Omega-2:
Omega-3:
revolutionman Cherokee (3.8 mt)
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Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:31 pm
Baikal wrote:
Thank for the correction. I thought the picture had seen it before ... but as it was on the STS web site I thought it might be the explosion of video, viewed from another angle!
And with the incorrect date of the test Chagan, and other images misidentified, we know that this page is unreliable!
Yes all over the internet there are dozens of photos of nuclear tests and non-nuclear tests that are labeled as being the "Chagan" test, that most of the time are unrelated tests altogether. Very unreliable sources out there.
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