Ein Schlag, zwei Explosionen – was neues Filmmaterial über die ukrainische Marschflugkörper FP-5 verrät

Really really nice

That’s… actually quite a big explosion.

This actually raises an interesting point.

In WW2 striking a factory didn’t tend to do that much as machine tools such as lathes and drills were a mass of iron and were quite resistant to blast effects; IIRC workers could just brush off bits of ceiling and debris and carry on work within minutes of returning after the all clear from the air raid.

Are modern CNC machines as resistant to blast when a tonne of explosives goes off nearby?

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that delicate precision machinery is going to have serious objections to that sort of treatment and is going to want some serious TLC before working again. Earthquakes apparently take out a CNC workshop for a day just for recalibration with prior warning and a soft shutdown, and occasionally break things requiring a week or so of downtime afterwards with western levels of servicing by qualified people with a supply of spare parts on tap.

That’s likely to be worse without the manufacturer qualified service engineers, and yet worse if the people doing the servicing don’t have an easy supply of spare parts because of sanctions.

Presumably a tonne of explosives is worse than a earthquake; especially given that they arrive with no warning and so you can’t shut down neatly beforehand. It’d be interesting to know what sort of effects that blast is likely to have on the equipment. Does anybody have any idea?