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Can you see craters from space?
What a dim tool. His claim to fame is Russia blame by saying big crater = air bomb. Applied to a scene where we see no large craters. He says satellite images show them. Maybe. One crater seen, inside, is small, low-power, and left all but a torn few boxes alone just inches away. Definite sign of Russian bombing; too sophisticated for Syria - it leaves small discrete craters and boxes unharmed, so they can deny it later. Artillery or rebel rockets would have obliterated the warehouse.

I mean, remember the Aleppo University Attack? Activists said it was a jet strike with its puny air-to-surface missiles. The government said it was two powerful surface rockets fired by rebels in Lairamoun. Western experts decided there were no jet sounds, the blasts and craters seemed too powerful for anything a jet would fire, and a regime Scud missile was fingered.

So anyway, the craters at the attack site are too small to be from false-flag rebel rockets or SCUDS, or the claimed "barrel bombs," so it must be Russian jets, as a simple satellite view reveals. Or... confused now. Something like that. --Caustic Logic (talk) 11:06, 6 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Has anyone been able to pinpoint a crater in any of the ground level footage? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 11:38, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We have the warehouse crater showing it wasn't a dud impact but a small blast ... spot 2 as I mapped it. Spot 1 should have a crater, but it would be under rubble. Something is being filled in the highway with a front-loader next day (spot unsure, PavwayIV thinks it's at the gate, in front of truck #5?). So ... implied, maybe, strangely not clear, maybe not...
 * Mostly what I see is some kind of fuel-air blast? Pressure wave and burning, not big on making craters - but also shrapnel (or something like it?) in conjunction. --Caustic Logic (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd say not excluded but not concluded either (and rather gross claim to make; that would be professional grade munitions; although some smaller versions can be carried, like Russian Shmel ). Batman in Donbas was killed when his van was hit with several Shmels as well as machine gun fire; what remained of them looked far worse than what we see here; but those were direct hits by one or several Shmels penetrating the van. There are some craters or marks and that white stuff which could be hell cannon (not excluded). It is unclear to me what sort of crater to expect if propane tank filled with explosives hits the pavement. Maybe it bounce off pavement before explosion, and not much crater on hard surface; its also homemade so may not work at full potential. Have not seen how hell fire craters look like in practice. Maybe there are some photos somewhere, to educate ourselves. We see some shrapnel but not a lot, and mostly on SUV. Shrapnel-wise does not look like a huge blast. --Resup (talk) 12:22, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * FAE is not too hard for rebels - I have suspected (might revise) they used this on rockets in the Douma Market Attack, August 2015 (left craters) and the Ghouta chemical attack (as a prop with the famous rockets, no crater, just a tube in the dirt, with burn rings and collapsed walls in a circle around it - see Talk:Thermobaric weapons) Hellfire should be similar but more powerful from the metal augmentation. --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:22, 6 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The question is, if there are any craters present that could be seen from space? If not, then his testimony is fraudulent. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 15:16, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Also not answerable totally. But so far I see none you could see from space. A Bellingcat comment says there's a big one behind the white truck (meaning #1, I think), but I haven't seen it yet. We've seen a lot, and there's little room left, so there can't be very many such craters. The filled-in one would be unfair to call based on size of dirt pile. He almost surely has nothing or very little to work with, and even if heas a crater or three, still probably no reason to say whether it was from a dropped or surface-fired munition. --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:22, 6 October 2016 (UTC)