Russian Surface to Air Missle Blast

[HomicideZero]

Make another fart fire video.

[CHSIndependent]

Enjoyed the post. The comments on it are even more entertaining. You can't knock Soviet or Russian firepower. That they tended to build solid dependable weaponry is evidenced by the fact that people from Somalia to Afghanistan and beyond carry AK-47's and RPG's as well as various small arms. During the cold war, they knew their birds didn't have the legs or performance to tangle reliably with the west, so they built the most frightening SAM arsenal ever built. Good to see one go!

[MrScotia]

The Russians did the same to ex US junk as well.

[ibnqhazzi]

i am somalian i did not know that we had such powerful weapons in our country, why was is it destroyed?

[eccentricAmerica]

This was either a Russian base, or a Somali base with Russian equipment left abandoned in the countryside after the civil war. Militants were using peices of the explosive material left here to attack U.N and U.S forces.

[HerroHerrar]

Russian base? the Russians were kicked out off Somalia in 1980, the Somalis killed more than 5000 Russians in the Ogaden war, this was Somalian defense system bought from the Russians in mid 70's, still dont know why you had to destroy it,

[eccentricAmerica]

@HerroHerrar Wasn't really ever sure of who this belonged to when I was there. Was told at the time it was a Russian base, and all the equipment there had russian writing on it. Was like everyone just bugged out one day and left all the equipment in place.

The reason we destroyed it though was that the Somali's were using the explosives left there to create command detonated mines against U.S convoys.

[SovietBear91]

@HerroHerrar 1st you kciked noobody out of somalia, soviet union only had 1500 military advisers there so how you can kill 5000 russians if there wer only 1500 russians in total that were only military advisers not troops

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 you idiot the soviets were the Somalians best friends at first, then they come up with an idea of uniting Somalia and Ethiopia to create a super Communist state in horn of Africa, but the Russians underestimated the Somalian nationalism, the idea could have never worked because the Somalis lost a whole region in western Somalia better known as Ogaden to the Ethiopians because of Britain, USA and France in wars in 1898- 1928,

[SovietBear91]

@HerroHerrar ok fucking skinny somalian nigger dont call me idiot, i know about that your ape niggers have no culture so the soviets tried to help you with military advisors but there were never soviet armed forces in somalia...sure some russians with guns that protected the military advisors

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 hahahah eeey you drunken Slav(slave race) lol, you must be brain damaged of all that homemade vodka, because i explained how the soviets got in conflict with the Somalis, but you seem to be very brain damaged, who ever said i'm Somali huh? seriously man lay off that vodka lol

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 and oooh yeah you fucking pigs have no culture other that getting drunk lol

[SovietBear91]

@HerroHerrar im not russian so stop with your useless jaundices...soviet union is the pioneer of the space age and they does other great things in sports, society, science and so on but what your nigger country has reached, the answer is NOTHING so go and cook some humans and make some shoes for europe, fucking african freedom fighter

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 jealous of what drunks and whores(russia have more Aids than anywhere elase in the planet after south africa)? if i would have been jealous i would have been jelouse about UAE,SINGAPOOR,JAPAN,MALAYSIA,C­HINA,USA,ENGLAND, NOT RUSSIA OR SERBIA OR ANY OTHER EASTERN Europe white(pigs) trash lol,

[SovietBear91]

@HerroHerrar so are your reading with eating how the child was barbarian nigger...dude cant you get it or what im not russian or slav so your fucking insults against russia are total useless...and where does aids come from, africa becuase you pigs fucked some apes in the ass

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 to tell the truth the soviets modernized the Somali security forces and trained officers to very high degree,

but in 1978 when the Somali armed forces went in to western Somalia(Ogaden) to reclaim it, then soviets turned on the Somalis who retook Ogaden back by force from the enemy,

[HerroHerrar]

@SovietBear91 in 1979 the soviets joined the fight again the Somali forces and they didn't come alone they brought Cubans and other African communist who were killed in very high number, the soviets lost between 1000-5000 troops in that war,

[drhollywood77]

@HerroHerrar 5000 russians werent even there

[HerroHerrar]

@drhollywood77 OK there were no 15,000 Cuban combat troops. there were NO 5 000 soviet combat troops with ground and air power, there were NO 20 000 southern Yemeni Communist troops, we were fighting ghosts loool, get real dude do some authentic research, and the west with its all fighting the Communists rhetoric didn't do shit to help us, the only people that helped us was western Germany at that time and we will always love them

[drhollywood77]

@HerroHerrar are you retarded or something ? why you put all this senseless stuff together ? russians didnt fought in somalia..

[TheGatman101]

so the mollies couldnt use it against the americans or UN

[TiNiMoCo]

I remember that blast!!! I would imagine everyone there remembers it! :D I was at the university compound walking back from the showers and heard/felt the shockwave! I looked back to see the small mushroom cloud! Great video! Thanks for the Blast from the past!

[joeytoots]

I want to know how far you are from the explosion -

[eccentricAmerica]

When we originally did this blast, I thought we were somewhere around 5 miles away, but after watching the video years later, I came to realize that we were much closer.

Sound travels at 340.29 meters/second - the shockwave hit us about 8 seconds after the explosion, so we were about 2722 meters or about 1.7 miles away.

[tuutuutango]

5 stars. I need to dig up my Mogadishu Airport footage and post on YouTube, as well as my interviews with soldiers and airmen who were there in/near Biadoa.