Current bavovna near the temporarily occupied town “Sugar Head” near Sevastopol city, Crimea. Russians announced the air raid alert only after this blast, anyone knows why?

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1. /r/killthecameraman

2. > anyone knows why?

   Well I sure do have a theory.

3. Sugar Head?:)
   https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.584167&mlon=33.639444&zoom=15#map=15/44.5842/33.6394
   Sakharna Holovka is another victim of google translate like Izyum/Raisins or Hola Prystan/Naked Prystan.
   The anger of the place should not be the reason.
   Near Sevastopol?
   Last time it was a household fire. According to the Russians of course.

4. Their air defense is shit. They lack good radar surveillance by now, so it’s likely they didn’t know something was coming until after the impact

5. Because “what air defense doing”

6. Because that’s when they found out.

7. Stupid is as stupid does

8. I may be misunderstanding the capacity for air raid detection, but one of the aspects of what makes ATACMS so valuable for Ukraine is the aspect that they do not require a jet to fire, removing the ability for Russians to begin an alert of possible incoming missiles due to detecting Ukrainian jets in the air.

   If instead you can fire from a much closer location directly (like from a HIMARS in Kherson for example) you are able to suddenly have a missile incoming on a target without any prior warning.

   Again, that could be something an air raid alarm may be able to detect, but it seemed plausible to me, especially considering the confirmation of other ATACMS missiles being used elsewhere.