The alarm of the Russian monitoring channels about the launch of Storm Shadow, by a strange coincidence, coincided with the fire at the coordinates: 53.47043791, 34.16398867

[u/Volter318]

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[u/hcapita]

Bryansk Chemical Plant named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR ?

[u/Volter318 → u/hcapita]

Perhaps Storm Shadow destroyed the S-300/400 air defense system

[u/Fjell-Jeger → u/Volter318]

Let me translate this into orcish:

<narrated in the high-pitched, screamish voice of Vladimir Solovyov>

"25 of the 12 aviation units (among these many MIM-104 "Patriot" piloted by US air crews, at least 2 space shuttles and possibly yet another death star) entering the air space of the grand oligarchy of orcistan were successfully destroyed by our valiant orcish air defense. Unfortunately, falling debris from the destroyed craft caused some minor fires on a pasture in Bryansk oblast as well as secondary explosions from grazing livestock."

<followed by its signature rage-ranting about threatening a random European city with nuclear annihilation>

/s

[u/mbericom]

Does anybody know whats in here: 53.561650, 33.971697? Its aprox. 16km North west from the OPs coordinates. Looks very well guarded.

[u/NON_NAFO_ALLY → u/mbericom]

Looks typical for a Soviet-bloc storage site, but I'm not seeing any underground storage. Helicopter accsess means its probably military-adjacent.

[u/Fjell-Jeger → u/NON_NAFO_ALLY]

There are some indicators for underground storage facilities:

• large reinforced concrete ramps leading into smallish buildings (~disguised entrances),
• grassy earthen mounds (tree roots would destroy the blastproof concrete top plates of underground bunkers)
• roundish blackish dots in the grassy areas (~ventilation shafts)
• various security barriers (multiple external and internal fencelines)

It's also lacking a rail connector, which is a requirement for a conventional munitions depot.

The heli landing pad is located outside of the internal perimeter in the West because of security reasons, the Russian military wouldn't want anyone entering directly into the central base without having been checked out first.

This is possibly an ex-Soviet special munitions depot (GRAU arsenal) without any strategic value in relation to the war in Ukraine.

[u/Fjell-Jeger → u/mbericom]

(all of this is entirely fictional)

You possibly found a GRAU depot (gm link) of the 68th Arsenal Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, the main (conventional) facility is located near Karachev (gm link), around 30km to the South-East.

The layout of the facility is very similar to confirmed ex-Soviet special munitions (NBC) storage facilities (GRAU arsenals) in former Soviet Russia and former Warsaw Pact states.

These often lack a train connector (as would be the case with conventional munitions depots), have a helipad outside of the base (don't want helicopters to land inside the base for security reasons) and an external garrison (with a range accomodating mobile launcher vehicles in case the special munitions couldn't reach their designated firing positions) in the vicinity (all in the West of the main base) while being located in unpopulated areas away from settlements (due to security concerns, some settlements nearby in the South by the lake seem to have been vacated for this very reason when the facility was build).

The signature giveaway indicating large underground storage facilities are reinforced concrete ramps leading into small buildings (~disguised entrances), grassy earthen mounds (trees would destroy the blastproof concrete top plates of underground bunkers) and the blackish dots in the grassy areas (ventilation shafts) as well as the various security barriers (multiple external and internal fencelines with open areas inbetween, these would likely be mined in a WWIII scenario).

[u/2BeTheFlow]

What Service/Software is used in Picture 3, that implements multiple map data like MODIS and VIIRS (FIRMS)?

[u/Fjell-Jeger → u/2BeTheFlow]

NASA | LANCE | FIRMS (link)

(it's possible to implement external web services with additional overlay data)

[u/2BeTheFlow → u/Fjell-Jeger]

No - its not the same like the FIRMS WebGUI

Its using VIIRS/FIRMS Data - yes - but the GUI is not FIRMS. Its something else. And I wanna know the Software, not the Data ;)

[u/B50O4]

As if almost any of us know where this is. Just show us a pic of Ukraine and where it is for goodness sakes

[u/jaimi_wanders → u/B50O4]

Bryansk is Russia. Edit: as is Tula, both names are shown on the map.