Pete wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe...ash/index.html

Within 4 minutes of each other. Both took off from Domodedovo

Coincidence, or...?


Explosives Found in Both Crashed Russian Jets

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6094456


Use of the Explosive Hexogen at a Glance

A Look at Cases Where the Powerful Explosive Hexogen Was Found


November 1999: In St. Petersburg, Russia, police arrest a man found
with four sections of a missile warhead carrying high explosives.
ITAR-Tass said the segments contained hexogen.

September 1999: In Moscow, apartment bombings killed some 300 people.
Authorities blame Chechen separatists for the explosions, which
involved hexogen.


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040827_1071.html



Probe Into Russian Plane Crashes Centers on 2 Female Passengers

In particular, officials are seeking more information on two female
passengers with Chechen surnames. No relatives have come forward to
claim the women's remains, as happened with all the other victims.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?o...20Passen gers


Chechnya 'Black Widows' linked to sabotage of Russian jets

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ixnewstop.html


'Black widows' link to air crashes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/art...293205,00.html

....

What might the Russians do?

Two 100 MT solutions for Grozny a

1 Lo-tech -- drop a huge iron ball on the city that strikes it at 1
km/sec.


Distance from Impact: 0.00 km = 0.00 miles

Projectile Diameter: 585.00 m = 1918.80 ft = 0.36 miles
Projectile Density: 8000 kg/m3

Impact Velocity: 1.00 km/s = 0.62 miles/s

Energy before atmospheric entry:
4.19 x 1017 Joules = 1.00 x 102 [megatons] TNT


http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/


2 Hi-tech -- resurrect two big things for a sub-orbital 100-MT
mission.

(Ground burst is chosen if winds take the fallout toward terrorist
refuges or toward "uncooperative" neighboring nations of Russia.)


"We can build the full-power version of THIS:"

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/vulkan.htm

http://k26.com/buran/Info/Hercules/vulkan.html

http://www.friends-partners.org/part...v/vulkanlv.gif


"to launch the full strength version of THIS!"

http://www.vniief.ru/museum/photo_08_e.html

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Tsarbmb.jpg



Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns) 77.1 kilometres

Air blast radius (widespread destruction) 33.0 kilometres
Air blast radius (near-total fatalities) 12.5 kilometres

Ionizing radiation radius (500 rem) 7.5 kilometres


Fireball radius (minimum) 2.7 kilometres
Fireball radius (airburst) 3.3 kilometres
Fireball radius (ground-contact airburst) 4.4 kilometres

Fireball duration 35.7 seconds


http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html