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VIDEO: Russian Military Set Off Avalanche With Very Big Gun

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 UKC Videos 24 Mar 2011
[Russian Military Set Off Avalanche With Very Big Gun]
Here the Russian Military set off a huge avalanche using a very big gun.

Luckily no one was injured, but the avalanche gets a bit too close for comfort...

The film was shot by the Russian TV show "My Planet"

Watch the video: http://www.ukclimbing.com/videos/play.php?i=545

 sebastien 24 Mar 2011
In reply to UKC Videos: Now I see why I must travel at 5am on that road!!
In reply to sebastien:

I love how you see them watching it calmly and then all of a sudden its like...

"Guys, thats getting close"

"ermm thats getting really quite close" walking backwards

"bugger!"
 smithy 24 Mar 2011
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I want that job!
 JH74 24 Mar 2011
In reply to UKC Videos:

Is that lightning at 1.18? Interesting to see that..
 anonymouse 24 Mar 2011
In reply to JH74:
I think it overruns a electrical substation of some kind. It's there in the foreground at the start of the video.
 Mark Edwards 24 Mar 2011
In reply to UKC Videos:
I think it's when it trashes the pylon (that is shown earlier in the clip). Not a ski lift as it's fitted with insulators.
 JH74 25 Mar 2011
In reply to anonymouse:

Yeah ok I seem to have missed that on first viewing although I did think it was plausible that such a cloud could generate electrical activity.

These soldiers are feckin idiots. Good job they're not in charge of heavy weapons...
James Jackson 25 Mar 2011
In reply to JH74:
> (In reply to anonymouse)
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> Yeah ok I seem to have missed that on first viewing although I did think it was plausible that such a cloud could generate electrical activity.

Not a stupid suggestion at all. I think electrical activity is often seen in big avalanches.
 mcdougal 25 Mar 2011
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I think that using artillery is a common method of dealing with loaded avalanche slopes. I'm sure I've seen footage of Americans doing the same in Colarado.
 mcdougal 25 Mar 2011

It's probably not common practice to stand in the avalance's runout area to watch the devastation that you've caused, however.
 Reach>Talent 25 Mar 2011
In reply to mcdougal:
In all fairness that was a massive slide, it looked like it stripped off a couple of nearby peaks in addition to the slope they were shelling.
 thedatastream 25 Mar 2011
In Soviet Russia, avalanche shoot you!
 sebastien 28 Mar 2011
In reply to Reach>Talent: Indeed, there had been massive snow falls the previous days and the road was closed for almost a week.
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